‘There wasn’t a copper in Leeds who didn’t know Savile was a pervert’

UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post

by Simon Bristow
Updated on the 17 October 2013

A FORMER Leeds policeman who anonymously told journalists that he caught Jimmy Savile trying to seduce an underage girl in 1965 has been urged to come forward and speak to investigators.

The ex-Leeds Pc spoke to the Daily Mirror and the BBC under the pseudonym Paul Leonard, claiming that Savile was found parked in a lay-by with a young girl in his Rolls Royce.

He told the newspaper that the disgraced DJ said he was waiting for midnight when the girl turned 16, and threatened: “If you want to keep your job I suggest you get on your bike and f-off.”

Today West Yorkshire Police appealed for the man to speak to them about the incident.

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