Marcus Parks

But if the girls were ill-tempered or didn't do their work...

Their cigarettes were taken away and they would be sentenced to solitary confinement in a silent padded room for an indeterminate amount of time.

Yeah.

When Jimmy Savile showed up at Duncroft in 1974, he immediately saw how to take advantage of this situation.

He would arrive with armloads of candy, records, and cigarettes, the currency of Duncroft, and he would be greeted by a posse of girls every time he showed up in his Rolls Royce.

Like the patients at Broadmoor, Savile would take these girls out for rides in his Rolls Royce for sexual abuse and rape.

But it was actually a former Duncroft girl who became the first person to come forward about Jimmy Savile's crimes, although this girl did so in a clandestine way.

Her name was Kat Ward, and it was the online memoir that she wrote prior to Jimmy Savile's death that set reporters on the trail that led them to discover Savile's massive web of evil, although Kat only referred to Savile as J.S.

Now, Ward said that when Savile took her out on drives in his Rolls Royce, just like he did with dozens of other girls, Savile would grope her.

He would then promise cigarettes, records, and trips to the BBC.

And in exchange, he demanded oral sex.

When Kat finally did it, she gagged on his ejaculate, and as she was gagging, Savile leaned over to open her car door as if it was a routine he was well used to, saying, not in the car, not in the car, almost impatiently.

This treatment, favors like cigarettes or trips to tapings in exchange for oral sex, came to be known as Jimmy Specials.

And they were so common that Jimmy Specials came to be a known phrase around the BBC.

But if a girl didn't care about cigarettes or records, Jimmy had a far more insidious tactic.

He'd tell the girl that if she didn't give a Jimmy special, he'd tell all the other girls that the one who'd refused had, quote, ruined it for everyone, thus threatening total social exclusion.

So he knew how to get them no matter what.

Yeah.

Like he knew how to manipulate them.

Oh, yeah, very much so.