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The weird thing is, well before the original film, I always thought that it was quite well-known that Savile was not only a prolific child molester, rapist and necrophiliac
Both my mother and aunt where nurses in the 1960's and 1970's around Leeds.
They meet Saville a number of times through his charity work at hospitals and various nurses parties, in fact I can remember bother my parents telling us this when Jim'll Fix was in its prime.
Later on when I was older both of them told me he was one for the ladies and a bit of an octopus and one to avoid at a piss up.
I guess maybe these days that sort of behavior would be take more seriously and stamped on (rightly so) but it was viewed differently then.
What I never understood is how any celebrity however famous had a set of keys to one of this countries most secure
hospitals and could come and go as they wanted.
If one were to go full-on Icke-style conspiracy theory:
(from Wikipedia): "In September 1986, Edwina Currie became a Junior Health Minister.
In 1988, Currie appointed television personality Jimmy Savile to head up a task force to run the Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. Savile was given extraordinary power and a set of keys with complete access to every part of the hospital. He mingled repeatedly with the 800 or so patients, many teenage girls, some severely disturbed and medicated."
There was a story doing the rounds in the late 1990s that Edwina Currie was - during her tenure as an MP in the mid-1980s - a regular guest at the alleged Dolphin Square sex parties, along with Savile and many other so-called VIPs. There is (apparently) footage of her forcing 13- and 14-old boys into acts of cunnilingus, though obviously this should be taken with a trailer-load of salt.
But it would be one explanation.