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Police are probing claims sick Jimmy Savile was involved in the death of a young girl.

The former DJ was allegedly seen dragging away a child at a care home who was later said to have died.

The sickening extent of his depravity was laid bare today as damning NHS reports revealed the pervert was free to roam hospitals abusing victims at will – even targeting the dead.

The mass of NHS papers revealed vile Savile boasted about having sex with corpses in a mortuary, posed with bodies and wheeled them around at night, stole glass eyes from the dead and made them into rings and abused teenage patients in their beds as they recovered from surgery.

And it is said the paedophile targeted at least 103 men, women, boys and girls aged between five and 75 for his attacks in hospitals and state ­institutions, which included three rapes.

Savile preyed on the vulnerable almost to the end – his last known victim was in 2009 when he was 82.

The allegations he was involved in the death of a child came from a witness who said he saw the TV presenter and a friend with the girl at Roecliffe Manor children’s home in Leicestershire during the 60s.

A report published by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said: “The Informant stated that he witnessed a girl, who he believes was called April or Elizabeth, being dragged across the garden at Roecliffe Manor by ‘Jimmy’ and another man.

“She appeared to be in a stupor. The next day the informant was told by the matron that this girl had died.”

The paper concludes it could not corroborate the claim and said it had found “no reference to the death of a child at Roecliffe Manor”.

But Leicestershire Police confirmed it is probing the claims. A spokesman said: “We have received the report on Roecliffe Manor and started an investigation to determine if abuse took place and if so to what extent.”

The home was shut shortly after the alleged incident.

In February it was revealed Savile’s DNA was used to see if he was linked to a string of major unsolved crimes, including murder.

The NHS investigators found he targeted at least 103 victims as he roamed through 28 ­hospitals across Britain, including Leeds, Broadmoor and Stoke Mandeville, abusing as he pleased.

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He bragged about having sex with corpses at Leeds General Infirmary. A former nurse at ­Broadmoor said Savile told her about his appalling activities at the Yorkshire hospital, where he was a charity fundraiser and volunteer porter.

He said he would “muck about” posing with dead bodies of men and women together before taking photographs.

The nurse added: “I was a little bit upset because I had no concept, in those days, of… while I’d heard of ­necrophilia… but I didn’t ­understand what it meant.”

It is claimed former Top of the Pops frontman Savile told her he sexually assaulted the bodies as well, something he sickeningly dubbed “garamoosh”.

A former patient at Barnet General Hospital in North London said nurses told her in 1983 that Savile “liked to have sex with dead bodies”.

The Jim’ll Fix It host also boasted about making jewellery from glass eyes that he removed from their bodies.

One witness told investigators she asked him about his “gross, big silver rings”.

He told her: “D’you know what they are? They are glass eyes from dead bodies in Leeds mortuary where I work and I love working there, and I wheel the dead bodies around at night and I love that.”

Another witness, who was employed at the hospital, said: “I do remember seeing this ring he had on that looked like an eyeball and… and I must’ve mentioned it to him. He said: ‘It’s made from the eyeball of a dead friend’.”

Savile, who died aged 84 in 2011, has openly talked about his interest in the dead during media interviews over the years. He told one interviewer how he spent five days with his mother’s corpse.

Chairwoman of the independent investigation, Dr Sue Proctor, confirmed Savile had “expressed an interest in the dead” and said he “would take bodies to the morgue and carried out sex acts on them”.

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The probe team interviewed more than 200 people and reviewed at least 1,300 documents covering the 50 years Savile was associated with the LGI. It emerged 43 of his attacks took place in public areas such as wards, corridors and offices.

But starstruck NHS staff allowed him free rein to sexually abuse patients and hospital workers “didn’t want to hear or believe” what his tormented young victims were saying, the report said.

After the report was published, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust chief executive Julian Hartley apologised to the victims and thanked them “for being courageous enough to tell their stories”.

Broadmoor Hospital chief executive Steve Shrubb today told those targeted by the sex beast: “My words cannot heal the injuries that Jimmy Savile has inflicted on you through his callous abuse of your vulnerability.

“But I can offer my most sincere and heartfelt apology on behalf of Broadmoor Hospital.”

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised ­unreservedly on behalf of the Government for letting down patients molested.

He said: “Savile was a callous, opportunistic, wicked predator who abused and raped individuals, many of them patients and young people who expected and had a right to expect to be safe.

"We will urge all NHS organisations to look carefully at anyone mentioned in these reports, and of course the police will look at the evidence against any individuals.”

The total number of allegations relating to Savile’s sexual abuse now stands at more than 500 victims. One was even locked in a room by staff after she became upset by the pervert groping her legs and inner thigh.

Investigators at the LGI found staff were told about some of the incidents but no allegations reached senior managers.

The inquiry into his activities at the hospital after he started his association in 1960 included the testimonies of 60 people who gave accounts of their experiences of Savile to investigators.

The Leeds team said 19 of those who came forward were under 16 and the age range was five to 75.

They said the majority were teenagers but 19 victims were staff – all women.

The inquiry panel said Savile started working on the hospital radio service. He then became a regular celebrity visitor, a fundraiser and, from 1968, a volunteer porter.

It said he enjoyed ­unrestricted access to the hospital as he raised £3.5million through his charity activities.

He had access to keys to various departments, had a series of offices in the hospital and even had access to the mortuary, the panel said. But it was not just in the distant past that the former radio host struck.

In 2009, he was chatting to a 43-year-old woman on a train between Leeds and London and put his hand up her skirt.

And neither was his perversion limited to ­hospitals and children’s homes. He is said to have struck in TV studios, in his car and while on the road.

Last year Scotland Yard said it had recorded 214 crimes in 28 police force areas against Savile.