So it wasn’t just abuse that we suffered, but fear for our lives. He menaced us with the presence of minders from the underworld. “I was told at the time he knew the Krays. She said: “I know he was connected to the criminal underworld and it was made clear that whatever he did you just did not say anything, you kept your mouth shut. Savile used the threat of violence as a tool to keep his victims quiet. “He gave you these good times that young teens would like, at the same time there was this really, really dark side to him.” He was very clever because you didn’t quite realise what was going on, yet at the same time he told all these funny stories. She said: “He was a very good manipulator. I was told to go, it was as brutal as that.”Īngie says she felt trapped for years – in 1974, he gave her a copy of his autobiography in which he wrote “no escape” and signed it “your keeper”. “Afterwards he treated me as though I didn’t even exist, as though nothing had happened. I was absolutely frightened, it was all so scary and I froze. Kids in those days didn’t talk about sex, I had no idea about anything like that. She said: “He was much older than me and I didn’t know what was happening. “He invited me to different places where there were lots of other people around so it felt safe and exciting.”Īngie said that within a few weeks Savile had invited her to a London hotel where she was raped. So she jumped at the chance to meet the star, then in his early 40s, at the West London studios of Radio Luxembourg where he was a DJ.Īngie said: “He was very flamboyant and said he thought I was OK, that’s how the grooming process all started. Like much of the nation, she would watch cigar-chomping Savile on Top of the Pops most weeks. He did not give up on it, nor us five victims.”Īngie, a retired carer from the south of England who is now in her 60s, was a huge pop-music fan as a teenager. He had a difficult time getting the documentary to air, but he fought and achieved it. “Without Mark we wouldn’t be where we are now. “I knew I had to get it out there, it was vital that people knew the truth about him. The revelations changed the face of child protection in the UK, leading to thousands more victims coming forward and a string of official reports into the failure to protect youngsters at the BBC, NHS, police and Crown Prosecution Service.Īngie said this week: “Our documentary has made a huge difference to so many lives.
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