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Jimmy Savile was seen wheeling the body of a four-year-old child in a pram into a hospital mortuary, a new report into the paedophile's sick behaviour has revealed.

The former TV presenter, who died in 2011, had unrestricted access to Stoke Mandeville Hospital despite his reputation as a "sex pest".

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On one night in the 1970s, a night porter saw Savile wheeling the dead body of a child into the morgue.

Another witness, a former therapist at the hospital, said he had been told Savile had been seen "trying to have sexual intercourse with dead bodies in the hospital mortuary"

A former nurse told investigators how she was warned not to go down to the morgue if the "pink-haired man is there".

The vile stories emerged as a string of horrifying new details of Savile's abuse were uncovered, including:

Savile abused a total of 60 victims at Stoke Mandeville between 1968 and 1992

The star's older brother Johnny was also a sexual predator and was linked to five rapes in Springfield Hospital in South London

Nine complaints about Savile's behaviour were made but none "were taken seriously"

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Evidence from Savile's victims at Stoke Mandeville suggest his shocking behaviour was an "open secret" as early as 1973 after he started working at the Buckinghamshire hospital as a voluntary porter "with no checks, monitoring or supervision in place".

Two witnesses told investigators they had heard Savile was having sex with corpses, although no further evidence to support the allegation was found.

Previous reports into Savile's abuse heard "macabre accounts" of claims the now-dead TV and radio presenter performed sex acts on dead bodies in the mortuary at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI).

Among 60 victims of the depraved entertainer at Stoke Mandeville were children as young as eight, a pregnant mother in her 20s in hospital with her sick son and a 19-year-old paralysed woman in a wheelchair.

A former nurse told investigators how she was warned about a man believed to be Jimmy Savile in the mortuary at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) as long ago as 1954.

The woman - referred to in today's report as TB - told investigators that as a trainee nurse in that year she was heading down to the hospital's mortuary when the ward sister told her "to be careful and come back if the pink-haired man is there".

The report said: "TB recalls that when she went to the mortuary, 'he was there so I turned round and went back to the ward'."

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It said: "When we asked who TB thought the 'pink-haired man' was, TB was convinced that he was Savile."

Another witness remembers Savile taking the body of a four-year-old child to the mortuary in a pram one night in the 1970s.

A pram had to be used as the child was too big for the trolley usually used for children and too small for the one normally used for adults.

The night nursing officer, who has not been named, made the arrangement and Savile collected the body on his own.

Dr Sue Proctor, who led the main investigation into Savile's abuse at the Leeds General Iinfirmary, told a press conference last year that Savile claimed that large rings he wore were "made from the glass eyes of dead bodies at the mortuary".

Savile's other victims at the LGI ranged from five-year-old children to pensioners and included men, women, boys and girls.

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A 23-year-old radiographer in the late 1970s at the hospital, known as victim 19, said she often saw Savile walking around the hospital at night, assisting the porters.

The report added: "A nurse that victim 19 spoke to said that Savile would often push his way into their rooms and that he was known to be a dirty old man. No one ever indicated that Savile had actually abused them; he was regarded as a pain, nothing more."

The woman also noted that "Savile's brother (uncertain which one) used to wander around the hospital also dressed in a tracksuit. The common view was that he cut a rather pathetic figure".

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A separate report released today found it was likely Jimmy Savile's older brother Johnny molested and possibly raped women at Springfield Hospital in south London.

Johnny, who died in 1998, worked at the hospital as a recreation officer in the 1970s and allegations of abuse by him were uncovered by Operation Yewtree officers.

They were made by five women, between 1978 and 1980, with the last two culminating in him being sacked for gross misconduct of a sexual nature in 1980.

However, the report by South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust found no evidence Jimmy Savile ever visited Springfield or any other of the trust's units.