Marcus Parks
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah, I'm in the top of the pops.
That's what I used to do.
Sometimes.
Sometimes.
Yeah.
And at this point, him being an old man, some say is why the investigations at the end of his life didn't actually go through because he's too old.
He's going to die.
He's going to die.
We like we don't want to.
Yeah, he's too old to settle everything.
Well, when Saville started popping up on TV again in the mid-2000s, women who had been raped or assaulted by Saville began speaking out.
And the loudest voices were coming from women who had done time at Duncroft-approved school for girls in their youth.
But even though Jimmy Saville was in his 80s when this started happening, he still never let down the guard that had kept and protected all those years.
In Surrey, a police investigation called Operation Ornament was opened following Saville's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
But even though several rape allegations were collected, the investigation stopped when it was discovered that at least four Surrey police officers were personal friends with Jimmy Saville.
Those cops attended weekly social meetings at Saville's apartment, meetings known as the Friday Morning Breakfast Club.
For four decades, serving and retired police officers would come to Savile's penthouse to be charmed, befriended or compromised, all for the purpose of keeping them on Jimmy Savile's side when he needed protection, which was often.
Yeah, it's a guy's apartment.
Yeah.
And you also see with stuff like this is they also bring in people who ostensibly.