Henry Zebrowski
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Sometimes he would say that he worked there for seven.
He'd also say he'd go back.
Yeah.
That was his whole thing.
He'd be, I'd be right back in there if I could.
Mm-hmm.
And some, like Bevan boy advocate Warwick Taylor, he speculated that Savile actually spent very little time in the mines.
What?
Yeah.
And that Savile probably used his dead cousin's name, which was very similar to Jimmy, his...
Jimmy Savile's real name was like James Wilson Vincent Savile, and his cousin's name was James Wilson.
And it's speculated that Jimmy Savile may have used his dead cousin's paperwork to get himself out of spending too much time underground.
That sounds like the Jimmy Savile I know.
His worst crime.
Paperwork fraud.
Well, Saville also claimed that he was gravely injured in the mines.
But this claim is also suspect.
Supposedly, Jimmy Saville was caught in a cave-in when another worker detonated a charge without knowing Jimmy was there because Jimmy didn't have the light on and a safety hat.
And the nurse at the Leeds infirmary supposedly told Saville that he was unlikely to ever walk again without sticks, crutches.
But Jimmy Saville always called them sticks.