Jimmy Savile, former BBC personality who died last year, and now an accused pedophile, reportedly boasted IRA connections as a form of protection for himself.
The Mirror reports on Savile’s IRA threats and the terrifying warnings he issued to anyone who crossed him.
Savile once told a Sunday Mirror journalist that, “All I have to do is call my friends in the IRA. They’ll have someone waking up in hospital the next morning eating their breakfast through a f***ing straw.
“I know the IRA, men from the IRA, and you don’t need to ask these guys twice. I’m serious. Don’t f***ing think I’m not serious. I can get them done – just with a phone call. That’s all it takes, young man.”
Savile, who died last year at the age of 84, is currently being probed for severe allegations of widespread sexual abuse. A team of 10 from the Met’s Operation Yewtree are leading the probe with help from regional police forces, the NSPCC, and former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, a child protection expert.
The Met’s Commander Peter Spindler said: “We are dealing with alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale.”
Late last week Peter Watt, head of the NSPCC’s helpline, said: “It’s now looking possible that Jimmy Savile was one the most prolific sex offenders our organisation has ever come across.”
Despite having died a year ago at the age of 84, authorities believe that some victims have yet or will not come forward out of fear of the threats that Savile had made.
A source told the Mirror that:“He [Savile] boasted of knowing gangsters and men who you wouldn’t want to double cross. It is likely that some had been threatened with the IRA.”
“They [the victims] are still worried about coming forward. From all of the evidence gathered there is a clear picture developing of someone who not only abused vulnerable children but intimidated them and left them fearing for their lives.”
Once a presenter for BBC’s popular music program ‘Top of the Pops,’ Savile was constantly in the public eye. He often visited Ireland under the guise of doing charity work. Having once even been blessed by the Pope, Savile was keen to keep up appearances in order to make his crimes even harder to prove.
During one visit to Ireland, Savile found out about a friend who had died following a mugging. Speaking with a journalist, Savile threatened, “I want you to tell me what happened with **** *****. If you hear that someone has done this then I want you to tell me who straight away.
“I want to know names and I can have them waking up in hospital with every bone in their body broken.
“If someone has done this to **** ***** that makes them my enemy. And you don’t want to be my enemy.”
Williams-Thomas was informed of Savile’s threats and said that, “The pattern of behaviour which has emerged is that Savile’s victims felt in great fear of him and this has prevented many from speaking out then or ever since. Having researched Savile and knowing what I know, their fears were and are very genuine.
“What we’ve heard so far about Savile is the tip of the iceberg. It is clear there are people high up in organisations that either knew, suspected or turned a blind eye to the fact one of Britain’s biggest TV and radio stars was a prolific pedophile.”
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Kilsally | Oct 30, 2012, 11:29 AM EDT
Not sure you can remove such titles, especially posthumously - as per Saville`s papal knighthood aswell as his UK knighthood
MichaelJTully | Oct 26, 2012, 03:39 PM EDT
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG. With the connection being made to the IRA, will this mean he will loose his titles. Maybe this is the excuse Her Maj needs to remove them. Pedophilia on it's own may not be enough to remove his titles. Or so it goes, with aristocracy.
Kilsally | Oct 26, 2012, 10:44 AM EDT
Yes but Jimmy was a Catholic (blessed by the Pope) who made regular visits to Ireland - he might have been making it up to intimidate people but then again he might not - indeed Gerry Adams IRA brother is up in court for similar child abuse is he not?
Reilleyfam | Oct 24, 2012, 12:44 PM EDT
And yet not a shred of actual proof. In the UK, when you dont actually have any real proof you just play the "IRA card" and that's enough.
IrelandNorth | Oct 24, 2012, 07:13 AM EDT
There are lies, damn lies, and Britsh tabloid concoted newstories!
IrelandNorth | Oct 24, 2012, 07:10 AM EDT
Ahhh! An soiscéal de réir Roibeard & Rupert. Tá Tablóid guttersnipe na Breataine a téinn i ríocht mar iriseoireacht dlisteanach, ach i ndáiríre porn bog agus leabhar grinn / ábhar úrscéal grafach. Fuaimeanna cosúil le propaganda dubh dom, ag preas a riamh chaill an deis a coirpigh náisiúnachas na hÉireann agus poblachtachas. Glorified páipéar leithris.
eviiie006 | Oct 22, 2012, 06:12 PM EDT
Seriously this is the biggest, amount of bollocks, I have read in such a long time. Who else is going to have connections, with this filth. Mickey flaming mouse or maybe just maybe Dustin The Turkey.
O'Hanlon | Oct 22, 2012, 06:01 PM EDT
Never heard so much bollocks in my life. Little was said abou these so called 'IRA connections' when Jimmy Saville became an honarary 'Royal Marine' and had a gong around his neck as the very same media trying to detach him from their supposedly 'beyond reproach' Empire (whatever that is these days). Jimmy Saville was lauded by the BBC, British establishment and Royal Marines as the ultimate lovable eccentric British icon. Now suddenly the peoaphilia the BBC and the British media turned a blind eye to has suddenly become synonymous with IRA kneecap busters. I've never heard such a load of bollocks in my life. What if he said "I'm going to get the Queen to chop off your head" or threatened to keep his victims quiet by inflicting death moves learnt whilst training with the Royal Marines. This has to be one of the most facetious and tenuous connections ever made in a bid to demonise the Irish by association with the ramblings of a paedophile protected by the British establishment and revered by the Royals and the tabloids who paraded him as a the great "English eccentric, lodda work for charidee pop pickers etc..." and when it came to confronting the truth looked the other way. Time they got their own house in order.
aloistmartin | Oct 22, 2012, 05:03 PM EDT
When I. was a young man growing up at the Time of "The Troubles" I. Believed only Socialists, Communists, and Revolutionaries, were known to express Solidarity with the I.R.A. Now years later, I. hear of everyone from Common Criminals, ( James "Whitey" Bulger ? ) to Despotic Drug Lords, and Pedophile Hollywood Celebrities, ( All Hollywood Celebrities seeking to exploit Irish Socio-Politics, are no better than Pedophiles ! ) are being associated with the now infamous, Militant Republican Outlaws ? I. suspect the whole thing is a simple matter of the Free State Bourgeois Indolence: Despotism, Debauchery, Corruption, Drugs, and Prostitution; Arm and Arm alongside the weary remnants of the Old Brigade INLA, The Connolly Communists, and Sinn Fien. This is far from over Brothers ! Support the Irish Spring !
MOTOPAC | Oct 22, 2012, 02:28 PM EDT
Personally, if I DID have connections with leg breakers who were willing to "get people" for me (and I'm not saying I do), I sure as hell wouldn't tell people about it. Jimmy the pederasty suspect may well have been talking out his ass to intimidate people. Frank Sinatra liked to do that as well.
slainte9 | Oct 22, 2012, 11:19 AM EDT
Somehow, someway, predictably, if the British have a problem, they'll find a way to blame the Irish.
EamonnDublin | Oct 22, 2012, 10:37 AM EDT
"Joe Kelsall" - No. Éamonn, Dublin.
kubs | Oct 22, 2012, 10:16 AM EDT
Righhht! Just like some punk bragging about his connections to the Mafia. Maybe Savile even would have even gotten Jimmy Hoffa to "fix" things---- 0h, wait! That Jimmy's dead. And now so is this Jimmy.
Joe Kelsall | Oct 22, 2012, 10:12 AM EDT
Wasn't there a time when the IRA was a paedophile organisation?
Portia777 | Oct 22, 2012, 09:21 AM EDT
All predators use threats like this one. In fact he is coming across as a psychopath more and more.