Marcus Parks

Accusations of rape would be made against Jimmy Savile, but police investigations every single time for one reason or another would stall out before charges could be made.

And Jimmy Savile kept that game going until the day he died.

Yeah.

It's a nightmare.

It's an absolute nightmare.

And the other thing about it is that people like Salvo, people like Trump, they're connected.

And those connections get them out of situations all the time because a lot of us, I think, operate on this principle that there is justice in this world and that we have these systems in place to keep bad things from happening or at least to punish bad people when they do bad things.

But those people that are in charge of those systems have to get the wheels moving and they can just say no.

Like, that's the thing.

The people who prosecute the people who arrest, they can just say, no, I don't feel like it.

And therefore, that person will never go to trial.

They will never get prosecuted just because the wheels never move.

And so, because Jimmy Savile had figured out the system to AT, he died quietly in his sleep of pneumonia on October 29, 2011, at 84 years old.

He was found lying in his bed with his fingers crossed and a smile on his face, satisfied that he had lived a life of evil indulgence without consequence.

But once Jimmy Savile was finally dead, the libel suits were no longer a problem.

The victims' voices grew louder, and a police investigation called Operation U-Tree was finally launched by Scotland Yard, even though it took an entire year after Savile's death to finally get it going.

On the first day of investigation, 24 people reported crimes against Jimmy Savile.

And by the end of it, police had 600 lines of investigation open, with a final estimate of 589 reported assaults.

This, of course, is an incredibly low number, considering how Savile was active as an opportunistic predator for almost 60 years.

The real number is probably double, if not triple, what was reported to the Operation U-Tree officers.