Savile still had his costume on from Top of the Pops

Jimmy Savile raped a ten-year-old boy while dressed as a Womble.

The boy was joined by a 12-year-old girl from Scotland who were invited into the pedophile’s dressing room after a screening of Top of the Pops in December 1973.

Savile still had on the Womble costume he had worn to present the show when he raped the boy and sexually assaulted the girl.

Afterwards the presenter put an arm round each of them and told them that what had happened was a ‘secret’.


The victim said she remembers walking to the Tube station and telling her aunt they had seen Slade and had had pop and biscuits with Savile.



The report said: ‘She did not tell anyone what had happened.

‘She thought it was her fault and that she might go to hell for what she had done.’

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Savile in 2005 (Picture: Getty Images)

Savile was a regular visitor to Scotland and owned a cottage in Glencoe which was sold after his death.

The woman came forward after seeing a newspaper advertisement placed by a firm of solicitors, inviting victims of Savile to make contact.

The man who had been in Savile’s dressing room with her had instructed the same firm and one testimony supported the other, with Dame Janet Smith saying ‘I accept their accounts as true’.

The review heard evidence that Savile would on occasion bring an entourage of middle-aged men with him to the studios.

Describing the man who escorted the two children to his room, the report said: ‘If the man with the earring was one of the entourage, it would explain first why a boy of ten and a girl of 12 were let into the studio.

‘Second, if the man with the earring was keeping guard outside the dressing room, the risk which Savile took by behaving as he did with these two children would be much reduced.’

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