I rarely use quotes from the Daily Mirror but this is well worth a read, so utterly true IMO
"ONE of the weirdest stories I have ever covered was the laying in state of Jimmy Savile in a Leeds hotel last year.
One huge, gold-effect Vegas coffin, two This Is Your Life books, three cigars in an ashtray, and a crowd filing through like pilgrims at Lenin’s tomb writing messages such as: “God Fixed It for you to go to heaven.”
It left me with the same spooky, sickly “this isn’t right” feeling I’d had whenever I looked at Savile in his gold tracksuit, bangles, and dyed white head, doing that strange yodel noise behind eyes that tried to appear full of love but looked eerily dead.
Many of the pilgrims were weird too.
I asked one about the sexual allegations that had dogged Savile and he *answered: “How dare you call him a bad man? He raised £40million for charity. How much have you raised?”
Which seems to have been the stock defence that allowed this *paedophile to operate all of his adult life.
Come back with your dirty allegations when you’ve built a hospital wing, they said. The man’s a saint, so how can he be a sinner?"
More, including his unwholesome fizzog, at
this link