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12/10/2012
Former Director Claims BBC Ignored Complaint About Savile
Bosses ignored a report made about Jimmy Savile having sex with a young girl at the BBC, a former TV director has claimed.
David Nicolson, now 67, worked with Savile on Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops over 10 years and said his bosses just shrugged it off when he told them what he had seen.
He alleges he walked in on Savile's having sex with a "very, very young" girl in his dressing room.
"It was a bog standard changing room in the basement. They both quickly pulled up their pants. The girl could have been 16, maybe 15. But she was just one of many – he always had one in the room," Nicolson told the Sun. "He said 'What do you want, young man?' and shouted at me to get out of the room."
He now claims that he when reported the incident, he was told "That's Jimmy".
"I was revolted by his behaviour. They just shrugged it off, saying 'Yeah, yeah – that's the way it goes,'" he said.
He added that it is wrong of executives at the corporation to say nobody knew what was going on because "everyone would have known about it".
Meanwhile the BBC has set up an informal investigation headed by Ken MacQuarrie, a BBC official who has overall responsibility for BBC Scotland, into the decision in December 2011 to drop a Newsnight report containing sexual abuse allegations against Savile.
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David Nicolson, now 67, worked with Savile on Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops over 10 years and said his bosses just shrugged it off when he told them what he had seen.
He alleges he walked in on Savile's having sex with a "very, very young" girl in his dressing room.
"It was a bog standard changing room in the basement. They both quickly pulled up their pants. The girl could have been 16, maybe 15. But she was just one of many – he always had one in the room," Nicolson told the Sun. "He said 'What do you want, young man?' and shouted at me to get out of the room."
He now claims that he when reported the incident, he was told "That's Jimmy".
"I was revolted by his behaviour. They just shrugged it off, saying 'Yeah, yeah – that's the way it goes,'" he said.
He added that it is wrong of executives at the corporation to say nobody knew what was going on because "everyone would have known about it".
Meanwhile the BBC has set up an informal investigation headed by Ken MacQuarrie, a BBC official who has overall responsibility for BBC Scotland, into the decision in December 2011 to drop a Newsnight report containing sexual abuse allegations against Savile.
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