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He stressed that the company is run independently of the Royal Armouries Museum, with which it shares its site. Labour leader Ed Miliband said today no stone should be left unturned in the investigation into the alleged abuse. Speaking in Bristol he said: "I think these are incredibly serious and disturbing allegations that have been made, we now see a pattern of activity that seems to have been revealed about Jimmy Savile. ES Money. The Escapist.

The Reveller. The Optimist. ES Best. ES Mag. Follow us:. Password Please enter a valid password. Submit Submit. By Kiran Randhawa. A self-described expert on human psychology, he liked to say that, through his mental strength and his ability to live without normal human relationships, he had created for himself a life of "total freedom".

But Jimmy Savile did have many people with whom he had friendly relations. They were people from all walks of life. Some would qualify as the great and the good - hospital heads, surgeons, top TV producers. Others, the ones he saw more regularly, were down-to-earth types, uncomplicated Leeds men: a hairdresser, a chemist, a policeman.

We'd featured a few of these in my first documentary. When the time came to try to speak to them again I discovered, perhaps not surprisingly, that many of them felt too confused and embattled to go public. Their association with Savile had been a source of pride while he was alive.

Now it had become a source of embarrassment and fear. Those who did speak to us were all in different ways grappling with the aftershocks of the revelation of what Savile did. I asked if she'd read the reports. No, she said. She'd had no real sense of his private life, though looking back little clues stood out. And she mentioned, when I asked if he'd never shown anything other than a professional interest in her, that she would have been too "walnuttish" for him - a word she'd heard him use.

She was then in her mids. A colleague at Stoke Mandeville had a trove of memorabilia, including pictures, an over-sized last birthday card that was never given to him, and a larger-than-life Jimmy Savile bust made out of Lego, which she kept in the shed.

She'd spent the greater part of her working life raising money for Stoke Mandeville's Spinal Injury Unit. All that work was now tarnished and rendered suspect. She spoke of the upset of feeling that her life's memories were at risk of being lost. And then there was Jimmy Savile's personal assistant, the one he'd jettisoned so unceremoniously. She had worked as Savile's diary-keeper and factotum for more than two decades. By her own account, she organised events, cooked for him, and covered for him when necessary.

When he'd felt lonely on a round-the-world cruise because it was full of Americans, none of whom recognised him, she'd spoken to him on the ship's phone every day to keep his spirits up.

Then, without explanation, he'd sacked her, saying simply: "She's out. Her view of Jimmy Savile had been that he was "asexual". She had read the reports, she told me. But she viewed the incidents described as either trivial "a pat on the bum" as she put it or simply made up. Like the colleague at Stoke Mandeville, her life work had been tainted from its association with Jimmy Savile. Her way of dealing with it was simply to refuse to acknowledge the truth.

Re-entering the world of Savile was like travelling across a landscape ravaged by a hurricane. The survivors were making sense of what happened in different ways, but no one was untouched by what they had lived through. Among those I reached out to were the two girlfriends I'd met in At the time of the revelations, they'd come forward to say that they too had been abused by Savile. It was troubling to realise that I'd spoken to two victims while he was still alive.

I wondered whether, if I'd handled the encounter differently, they might have been able to say more. Those two women still didn't wish to talk publicly about what they had been through but they agreed to have a private meeting with me. They spoke about the rumours of his connections to the underworld. They said that, as much as they wished he could have faced justice, they would have been too afraid to go to the police while he was alive.

For many, the easiest shorthand explanation of Jimmy Savile has been that "he hid in plain sight". This was true in one sense. Savile had played up to an image as a white-haired playboy bachelor. His sartorial style - tracksuits, jewellery, weird hair - was a statement of a kind of perpetual agelessness. He looked a little creepy. He wrote about borderline criminal sexual shenanigans in his autobiography, As It Happens, including a night he spent with a girl who was a runaway from a remand centre.

But a big part of his life was a kind of double bluff. Referring to himself as a "pirate" or a "con man", as he often did, served to reassure those around him that he couldn't really be those things - or at least, not in a way that we should worry about.

His need to be seen to have secrets suggested perhaps his secrets weren't worth knowing - that it was simply another bid for attention. In fact, Jimmy Savile's offending took place both in plain view and also out of sight - and it was his blurring the lines that was part of the MO. Victims who'd been groped and complained were told, that's just Jimmy. Some who were groped with other people near at hand felt unable to protest.

They wondered if this was, somehow, permitted. Reading the reports of the assaults, it was clear Savile had an ability to work a room, almost like a stage hypnotist working an audience. Many of his assaults involved him testing the limits of what he could get away with. He would push the boundaries, starting off in a grey area so that sexual assaults weren't immediately recognised as such. Still others were assaulted away from prying eyes - at his flat, in his caravan. Some took the understandable decision that to report the assault would lead to a process that would in its own way be traumatic.

Others tried to raise the alarm but weren't listened to - by colleagues, friends, parents or those in charge. In hindsight, it's tempting to see clues everywhere. In a random comment on a recce tape - when our production first sent an assistant producer to interview him he referred to his bed as an altar, because that's where the "sacrifices" happen, he said.

Or in the overly physical way he embraced two women at Leeds's Flying Pizza restaurant one evening, which I only noticed looking back at the rushes. Or in his comment to me on one occasion that "a psychologist will tell you" that there was something in all women "that wants to be a prostitute". But given what we've lived though, what is most difficult to explain is that most of the time Jimmy Savile behaved something like a plausible, albeit odd, person. This may seem a rather banal point to make but it is also arguably the most frightening one.

By making Savile a figure of almost supernatural evil - someone who was self-evidently repulsive and dangerous - we risk failing to see him clearly as a human being. One day another Jimmy Savile may come along and he too may appear plausible - right up until the moment he is unmasked. A human being did Savile's crimes - one who charmed princes, prime ministers, leading religious figures and celebrities, not to mention the millions of people who listened to him on the radio and watched him on television.

A human being who was intelligent, sometimes amusing, and likeable, and who, by being those things, was able to fool a nation. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook , Instagram , Snapchat and Twitter.

Find out more. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Louis Theroux revisits his encounter with Jimmy Savile. Publicity shot from the documentary When Louis Met Jimmy. Image source, Getty Images. Former Controller of Radio 1 and Radio 2. Two other individuals were held up for criticism by Dame Linda Dobbs, who conducted a parallel inquiry into the culture at the BBC when Stuart Hall, the former BBC1 and Radio 5 Live presenter, was carrying out sex attacks at the organisation.

Eight of the victims were under the age of 16 and two were under As with Savile, his youngest victim was eight. When he took up his post he challenged Hall on rumours he was having sex with women in his dressing room and warned the presenter on his future conduct, Dame Linda found. It also claimed the show was tainted by corruption.