Haunting reality behind Jimmy Savile’s ‘eye’ rings after ‘interfering with corpses’
Jimmy Savile was one of Britain’s favourite TV presenters but he was also a prolific sex offender who abused hundreds of victims over several decades, with a chilling obsession with dead bodies also later uncovered
Chilling truth behind Jimmy Savile’s rings after ‘interfering with corpses’(Image: Getty)
Only following Jimmy Savile’s death did it emerge that one of Britain’s most prominent celebrities was a predatory sex offender.
Enquiries disclosed he sexually abused hundreds of victims across multiple decades. He gained fame through teatime television favourites such as Top of the Pops and Jim’ll Fix It alongside periods on BBC Radio 1.
Savile frequently exploited his position as a BBC figure to target hundreds of individuals – girls and boys, men and women, though predominantly vulnerable young females. He attacked and raped them in television dressing rooms, hospitals, schools, children’s homes and his caravan. The extent of Savile’s offences was “to the best of our knowledge unprecedented in the UK”, according to a report examining his activities entitled Giving Victims A Voice, which was released in 2013.
His documented crimes commence as early as 1955 and weren’t adequately exposed until following his death, aged 84, in 2011.
It subsequently emerged Savile harboured a morbid fascination with the deceased and the disturbing reality behind his rings.
In 2014 police examined an allegation published in a University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust report connected to the death of a young girl at a children’s care home near Loughborough in the 1960s, reports the Express.
Savile boasted to multiple individuals that some of his ornate rings were crafted using the glass eyes of corpses from his “friends” at Leeds General Infirmary, Dr Sue Proctor, lead investigator at LGI, revealed at the time.
The late performer, who had previously expressed his fascination with deceased bodies in several media interviews, confessed to a student nurse that he engaged in sexual acts with the corpses in the hospital’s mortuary during quiet periods.
Savile publicly discussed his obsession with the dead and admitted to a nurse at Broadmoor that he took pleasure in tampering with the bodies, including posing with male and female corpses and photographing them.
His interference with bodies extended to removing parts of them and crafting them into jewellery. When someone remarked on one such item, he claimed it was made from glass eyes he had pilfered from cadavers – one of which belonged to a close friend. Another was fashioned into a pendant necklace, which he wore for the final Top of the Pops episode.
There were opportunities for police forces to prosecute Savile while he was still alive – however, no charges were ever filed.
In 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service reviewed four allegations dating back to 1970, but chose not to proceed with a case as the victims would not support police action.
Savile was interviewed under caution and asserted that the allegations were fabricated by the complainants, whom he accused of being motivated by financial gain.
He threatened to sue the police and noted that he had previously taken legal action against five newspapers.
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