Abuse on a grand scale: Jimmy Savile raped and sexually assaulted victims aged 5 to 75 at 41 NHS hospitals including Stoke Mandeville - but staff turned a blind eye 

• NHS is still vulnerable to abuse by paedophiles like Savile, report reveals  
• Paedophile DJ abused 60 patients alone in Stoke Mandeville Hospital
• Among his victims were NHS patients aged between five and 75
• Star allegedly had sex with bodies in Leeds mortuary and took glass eyes
• Nine complaints were made about him but none were 'taken seriously'
• One member of staff  'severely reprimanded' after warning about Savile 
• Savile's fundraising and fame meant management saw him as an 'asset'
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  Jimmy Savile was allowed unfettered access to the NHS where he raped and sexually assaulted patients in 41 hospitals during a 24 year reign of abuse, a bombshell report has revealed this morning.
  The paedophile DJ attacked 60 NHS patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital alone, where he was given his own private bedroom and 24 hour access to all wards.  
  It is also likely that he had sex with bodies in a mortuary at Leeds General Infirmary for up to 50 years and is believed to have stolen a glass eyes from the dead and made them into medallions and rings.
  The series of 44 damning reports published today details Savile's decades of abuse across the NHS and how management turned a blind eye because of his fame and the amount of cash he raised for charity. 
  One member of staff at Stoke Mandeville who complained about Savile's abuse was 'severely reprimanded' by her bosses and the complaint was dropped. 
  Another worker said: 'We have to tolerate him because he makes so much money.'
  The NHS today admitted that a famous paedophile like Savile could still pose a 'risk to patients' because many hospitals still do not have 'explicit and robust processes for managing their relationships with celebrities'. 
  Savile's victims dismissed the reports as a ‘cover up’ after all NHS chiefs were cleared of any wrongdoing.
  

  Paedophile: Jimmy Savile raped and sexually assaulted 60 NHS patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital during a 24 year reign of abuse, a bombshell report has revealed this morning

  Jimmy Savile was allowed unfettered access to the NHS where he raped and sexually assaulted patients in 41 hospitals during a 24 year reign of abuse, a bombshell report has revealed this morning.

  The paedophile DJ attacked 60 NHS patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital alone, where he was given his own private bedroom and 24 hour access to all wards.  

  It is also likely that he had sex with bodies in a mortuary at Leeds General Infirmary for up to 50 years and is believed to have stolen a glass eyes from the dead and made them into medallions and rings.

  The series of 44 damning reports published today details Savile's decades of abuse across the NHS and how management turned a blind eye because of his fame and the amount of cash he raised for charity. 

  One member of staff at Stoke Mandeville who complained about Savile's abuse was 'severely reprimanded' by her bosses and the complaint was dropped. 

  Another worker said: 'We have to tolerate him because he makes so much money.'

  The devastating report today revealed:

  • Savile had 'unprecedented' access to NHS hospitals where he raped and abused patients on a 'grand scale' at 41 institutions over 24 years
  • Paedophile was able to attack victims aged between five and 75 years old. These were patients, staff and visitors
  • Staff at Stoke Mandeville made ten complaints about him but none were 'taken seriously' and he was allowed his own bedroom, where he abused victims, and 24 hour access to all wards
  • One staff member was 'severely reprimanded' by management for complaining about him. After one Savile attack a worker said: 'We have to tolerate him because he makes so much money'
  • Report says Savile boasted that he had sex with corpses in Leeds for up to 50 years and had jewellery made from glass eyes which he had removed from their bodies
  • Experts believe that the NHS is still vulnerable to campaigns of abuse by paedophiles

  Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire was where his abuse was most prolific. 

  The disgraced celebrity assaulted victims as young as eight years old there but despite at least 10 complaints being made nothing was done by senior managers to stop him.

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  Fame: Savile raised millions for the Stoke Mandeville, which led to him being seen as an 'asset', 

  Nurses and other hospital staff dismissed allegations against Savile because he was 'feted' by the senior management, who thought he was an 'asset' for the hospital.

  But Savile was using his celebrity status to cover-up his prolific paedophile abuse.

  Today's report uncovers the litany of abuse he carried out over almost a quarter of a century.

  It reveals Savile sexually assaulted a 10 year old girl while filming a BBC radio show called 'Savile's Travels'.

  He also inappropriately touched a girl of eight, 'grabbed' a 16-year-old's breast and 'placed his tongue down' the throat of a 13 year old

  Savile even abused teenage patients 'while they were being nursed in bed' the report reveals.

  He repeatedly raped a 17-year-old care assistant in his own private hospital room.

  She told the investigation: 'Savile would just take hold of me and put my hands where he wanted them. Or he would remove my clothes and put me in the position he wanted.'

  From the start of his relationship with the hospital, Savile's 'constant sexual innuendo' caused distress, the report said.

  But his behaviour was 'explained away' as being part of his eccentric personality.

  One victim said she told the nurses about Savile's abuse but was told he 'wouldn't do such a dreadful thing' and 'raised a lot of money for the hospital'.

  Savile report: Informal sex abuse claims not taken seriously

  

  

  
  

  Criminal: Nurses and other hospital staff dismissed allegations against Savile because he was 'feted' by the senior management

  

  
  

  Free reign: Savile, pictured at Stoke Mandeville in 1982, had his own bedroom, desk and 24-hour access to every area of the hospital

  STOKE MANDEVILLE'S SHAME 

  Savile had a flat at Stoke Mandeville - and his own office beside the children's wards.

  Staff who worked there have revealed that when the DJ visited the hospital children were told to pretend to be asleep.

  Two former senior doctors at Stoke Mandeville have been accused of rape and other abuses of children at the hospital at the same time, though there is no evidence yet that they colluded with Savile.

  One, Bruce Bailey is dead; the other, Michael Salmon, was jailed last Thursday for 18 years, having been found guilty of eight indecent assaults and two rapes of girls aged 12 to 18.

  Savile's relationship with the hospital even deepened in 1980 when he was appointed by the Government to raise funds for the hospital – giving him even greater access to another generation of victims.

  Despite a series of informal complaints the report claims that at 'no stage' were senior managers made aware of either 'his sexual offending or his unsatisfactory portering'.

  Victims groups are likely to jump on this claim as evidence that today's report is a whitewash for the hospital's senior management.

  In summary today's report found: 'Between 1968 and 1992 Savile sexually abused 60 individuals connected with Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

  'These victims ranged in age from eight to 40 years.

  'The victims were patients, staff, visitors, volunteers and charity fundraisers.

  'The sexual abuse ranged from inappropriate touching to rape.

  'Savile was an opportunistic predator who could also on occasions show a high degree of premeditation when planning attacks on his victims.

  'Between 1972 and 1985 nine informal verbal reports were made about the abuse by his victims and in addition one formal complaint was made.

  'The investigation found that none of the informal complaints were either taken seriously or escalated to senior management.

  'The one formal complaint was dropped by the complainant's father due to her serious ill health.

  'Consequently no intelligence about Savile's behaviour was gathered over the years and no action was taken.' 

   

  'It could happen again': Patients are STILL at risk of being abused by celebrities and volunteers at NHS hospitals

  NHS patients are still not safe from Jimmy Savile-style abuse scandals, today’s reports warn.

  Lax rules around volunteers and celebrities working in hospitals ‘pose a potential risk to patients, their visitors and staff’, the lawyer asked to detail the lessons which need to be learned from historic abuse found.

  Kate Lampard said NHS volunteer programmes were ‘not managed and overseen at a senior level’, leaving patients at risk.

  ‘There are already more than 78,000 volunteer numbers who in total contribute more than 13 million hours per year to the work of acute hospitals in England,’ she said.

  Ms Lampard added that ‘most NHS organisations still do not have adequately explicit and robust processes for managing their relationships with celebrities, important visitors, fundraisers and donors’.

  The report says from now on all celebrity visitors should be accompanied at all times.

  Hospitals are also still not able to ‘undertake barring list checks on all their staff and volunteers’.

  A separate report found that patients could still be abused at Stoke Mandeville despite revelations that Savile attacked patients at the hospital over 24 years.

  It says the hospital needs to be ‘alert to predatory sexual offenders’ to stop ‘a similar situation happening again’.

  Dr Androulla Johnstone, the lead author into that report, said senior staff there knew Savile was a ‘sex pest’ but none ‘claim to have known’ anything more.

  She told a London press conference: ‘The individuals to whom these incidents were reported failed in their duty to protect.

  ‘Consequentially, no intelligence about Savile’s behaviour was gathered over the years and no action was taken.’ 

   

  Jimmy Savile may have had sex with dead bodies for fifty years and stole glass eyes to make into trophy jewellery

  Jimmy Savile may have been abusing dead bodies in NHS hospitals for half a century, today's report reveals.

  A former nurse has said she was warned about the activities of someone she believes to have been the TV celebrity in the mortuary at Leeds General Infirmary as long ago as 1954.

  The woman - referred to in today's report as TB - told investigators that as a trainee nurse in that year she was heading down to the hospital's mortuary when the ward sister told her 'to be careful and come back if the pink-haired man is there'.

  The report said: 'TB recalls that when she went to the mortuary, 'he was there so I turned round and went back to the ward'.'

  

  
  

  

  
  

  Abuse: Savile boasted that he had sex with corpses and had jewellery made from glass eyes which he had removed from their bodies

  It said: 'When we asked who TB thought the 'pink-haired man' was, TB was convinced that he was Savile.'

  Today's report said: 'TB told us that she felt angry that there were people in a position of authority who she felt knew about Savile and she was cross that nobody said or did anything about it.

  'TB was specifically referring to the ward sister, who warned her about 'pink hair', but also named the matron. TB felt that as they were in positions of authority, they would have known about Savile's activities but TB did not specify any abusive behaviour.

  'TB was convinced that the matron also knew about the concerns related to Savile. TB named the ward sister and matron during her interview and she felt it is highly likely that they are both deceased as TB said that they were both middle-aged in 1954.'

  The woman is one of a number of new witnesses who have come forward since the main report on Savile's activities at the Leeds General Infirmary was published last June.

  That report outlined how the entertainer claimed to have 'interfered with the bodies of deceased patients' at the mortuary and a patient at another hospital overheard nurses discussing that they had seen Savile have sex with a dead body at another hospital.

  Dr Sue Proctor, who led the main investigation into Savile's abuse at the Leeds General Infirmary, told a press conference last year that Savile claimed that large rings he wore were 'made from the glass eyes of dead bodies at the mortuary'.

  Savile's other victims at the infirmary ranged from five-year-old children to pensioners and included men, women, boys and girls. 

   

  How staff at Stoke Mandeville turned a blind eye because they were star struck by celebrity who could 'make so much money' 

  

  Jimmy Savile's fame, wealth and prolific fundraising, which raised millions for the NHS, meant he was free to abuse who he wanted, it was revealed today

  Jimmy Savile's fame, wealth and prolific fundraising, which raised millions for the NHS, meant he was free to abuse who he wanted, it was revealed today. 

  After being appointed by ministers to fundraise for the hospital in the 1980s Savile was 'able to access a new cohort of victims for his sexual abuse in the guise of young charity fundraisers to the hospital', the report found.

  Stoke Mandeville report author Androulla Johnstone this morning slammed the decision and said the Thatcher Government was 'remiss' in giving top-level endorsement to Savile.

  The hospital finally confronted Savile in 1991 and moved to reduce his influence.

  Today's report reveals how one victim, who was abused for five years from the age of 11, felt she felt unable to tell anyone about the abuse.

  She said: 'Every time I went in that room I just knew that he would touch me wherever he wanted to touch me.'

  One nurse told another victim 'don't be silly' after she revealed Savile had assaulted her.

  In 1980/81 a registered staff nurse was told she had to 'tolerate' Savile's abuse because of the amount of money he raised for the hospital.

  During a training course at Stoke Mandeville, she was taken to Savile's room on the hospital grounds. He proceeded to touch her inappropriately.

  The report says: 'Savile was wearing tracksuit bottoms. She could see his penis poking out and it was apparent that Savile was 'fiddling' with it and was aroused.'

  But the course tutor said: 'We have to tolerate him because he makes so much money.'

  'Victim 34' describes how she was abused by Savile while his camera crew photographed him.

   

  Jimmy Savile's brother Johnny also abused women at a psychiatric hospital in south London 

  

  
  

  Jimmy Savile's older brother Johnny, pictured, molested and possibly raped women at Springfield Hospital in south London, the report said

  A separate report released today found it was likely Jimmy Savile's older brother Johnny molested and possibly raped women at Springfield Hospital in south London. 

  Johnny, who died in 1998, worked at the hospital as a recreation officer in the 1970s and allegations of abuse by him were uncovered by Operation Yewtree officers.

  They were made by five women, between 1978 and 1980, with the last two culminating in him being sacked for gross misconduct of a sexual nature in 1980.

  Johnny, who was five years his brother's senior, lost his job as a recreation officer at a south London hospital over a depraved 'sex game'.

  A woman, believed to be a former patient at the hospital, complained he mauled, groped and raped her.

  A spokesman for the hospital, which is now called the South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, said in 2012: 'We are aware of this case and if we are contacted by the police we will cooperate fully.

  'We believe there was a criminal case in 1979 over rape allegations. The victim is believed to have been an ex-patient at the hospital.'

  However, the report by South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust found no evidence Jimmy Savile ever visited Springfield or any other of the trust's units.

   

  Victims brand report a whitewash and say it ‘beggars belief’ no senior staff were aware of abuse and NHS chiefs are cleared of wrong doing 

  

  
  

  Whitewash: Savile's victims says it is a 'cover up' because all NHS staff were cleared of any wrongdoing

  Today’s bombshell Savile reports were dismissed as a ‘cover up’ by victims after NHS chiefs were cleared of any wrongdoing.

  The investigation into Savile’s 24-year reign of abuse at Stoke Mandeville found that ‘at no stage were senior managers made aware of either his sexual offending or… his poor moral behaviour’.

  The finding comes despite at least 10 complaints being made against Savile by NHS patients between 1972 and 1985.

  Over the 13 years nine ‘informal verbal reports’ were made about Savile’s abuse –as well as one formal complaint.

  But the investigation found ‘that none of the informal complaints were either taken seriously or escalated to senior management’.

  It added: ‘The one formal complaint was dropped by the complainant’s father due to her serious ill health.’

  But Liz Dux, of Slater and Gordon Lawyers, who represents 44 of the Stoke Mandeville victims, said it ‘beggars belief’ that the report found no evidence of senior staff being aware of the abuse.

  Dr Johnstone denied allegations of a ‘cover-up’ by staff, and said Savile's behaviour went unchecked due to a ‘general disbelief’.

  ‘We heard that there were an awful lot of people that behaved in the hospital like that,’ she said.