Savile boasted of having sex with bodies in mortuary

An investigation into the depraved activities of Jimmy Savile in hospitals across Britain has uncovered testimony that he boasted of having sex with dead bodies, and that his victims ranged in age from five years up to pensioners in their mid-70s.

Investigators looking into alleged incidents at 28 hospitals heard the now-dead, pervert entertainer claimed to have “interfered with the bodies of deceased patients” at the Leeds General Infirmary mortuary, while a patient of Barnet General Hospital overheard nurses discussing how they had seen Savile have sex with a dead body at another hospital.

The latter witness said that nurses in 1983 told her Savile “liked to have sex with dead bodies”.

The Leeds investigators found that Savile had an interest in the dead, was friendly with the chief mortician at the hospital and, in his role as a voluntary porter, would have had easy access to the mortuary due to lax security.

The DJ even bragged that large rings he wore were “made from the glass eyes of dead bodies at the mortuary”.

One of the 28 hospitals investigated was the high-security Broadmoor, where Savile sexually abused at least five individuals, including two patients who were subjected to repeated assaults.

Investigators found Savile raped a woman in a motor home at Digby Hospital, a mental hospital in Exeter, in 1970, while a former patient at the mental health unit at High Royds Hospital Leeds claimed Savile inappropriately touched people during a fancy dress fun run in the 1980s.

However, some of the most shocking discoveries were made during the investigations into the LGI and Broadmoor. Savile’s other victims at the LGI ranged from five-year-olds to pensioners, and included men, women, boys, and girls.

Investigators discovered members of staff at the LGI failed to pass on complaints of abuse to senior managers.