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Sex monster Jimmy Savile now accused of molesting patients on Notts wards

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A NOTTS mental hospital is among the list of places where Jimmy Savile is said to have sexually abused patients.

According to a new report from the Metropolitan Police and NSPCC, the late TV and radio presenter abused a patient in 1971 at the old Saxondale Mental Hospital, near Bingham.

The hospital closed in 1988.

In total seven complaints made to Notts police about Savile have been referred to Operation Yewtree – a national investigation set up in October to look into claims of child abuse by Savile and others.

It is one part of the catalogue of abuse allegedly committed by the television star and charity ambassador – with 450 people accusing Savile of sexual assault.

Peter Watt, NSPCC director of child protection advice and awareness, hopes the report will bring closure for Savile's victims.

"The sheer scale of Savile's abuse over six decades simply beggars belief," he said.

"He is without doubt one of the most prolific sex offenders we have ever come across and every number represents a victim that will never get justice now he is dead.

"But with this report we can at least show his victims that they have been taken seriously and their suffering has been recognised."

David Hardwick, 67, appeared on Savile's Radio One show Speakeasy in the early 1970s after he founded a youth group.

He was given a lift back to his home town of Mansfield with Savile in the star's motor home.

He got out at a service station for something to eat and when he returned he said he saw two girls, believed to be aged 13 to 15, emerge from the vehicle looking "dishevelled".

The incident was raised with the show's producer, and in turn a manager, but Mr Hardwick said they were told to drop the complaint.

"Celebrity opens doors, but shouldn't mean the right security checks are not carried out," said Mr Hardwick, who now lives in Riddings, near Alfreton.

"My overwhelming feeling is disappointment, not with the report, but that a guy that did so much good in his life and destroyed it all by his weaknesses."

Sex monster Jimmy Savile now accused of molesting patients on Notts wards


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