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Marcus Parks

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Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Yes.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Jimmy had met Mayor Giaconelli during an episode of Savile's Travels, when Jimmy covered a judo club that Giaconelli had founded in Scarborough.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

This club attracted a lot of young boys, who later said that Giaconelli spent most of the judo sessions practicing groin holds on each and every student.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

And so, between the ice cream shops and the judo...

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Yeah, he's a 300-pound man full of oysters.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Well, between the ice cream shops and the judo, Mayor Giaconelli had access to a lot of young boys.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

And these young boys often attended something called the club, which was, of course, a front for sex parties involving young kids of both sexes.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Amongst the members of the club was Jimmy Savile and many others of the same persuasion.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Jackanelli was never arrested nor investigated, but like Savile, his reputation as a predatory pedophile who preyed on local children, it only came out after his death in 1999.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

This was after he had served as Scarborough's mayor for 30 years.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

It's like if Pennywise was your mayor.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Yeah.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Well, as a man in a position of power, Giaconelli regularly made other politicians and police officers complicit in his crimes, and he therefore never faced investigation.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Well, Giaconelli, even when Jimmy Savile fed mentally disabled patients from Rampton Hospital directly into Giaconelli's sexual meat grinder, nothing happened.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Nobody noticed.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Now, Jimmy Savile was effectively unstoppable by the 1970s.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Even though several journalists reportedly had dirt on Savile's sexual crimes, none of those reporters planned to publish because of Savile's popularity and because of the work he did for charity.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

No one was going to believe them.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

And then, in 1973, Jimmy Savile got a massive amount of public sympathy when his mother, the Duchess, finally reached the end of her miserable fucking life.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

That was when Van Helsing finally found them.