Savile witch-hunt?

It won’t come as a surprise to learn that the media seems to be following its normal course of never letting the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

In the Speccie today, Rod Liddle questions whether they are deliberately suppressing or ignoring evidence that might suggest that some of the people claiming to be abused by Jimmy Savile are actually telling porkies.

 

He led me to one Anna Raccoon (www.annaraccoon.com) who was an inmate at Duncroft, the reform school where JS is alleged to have abused underage girls.

 

In a lengthy blog, she sets out the reaction of the media to evidence that doesn’t quite fit the present witch-hunt. Whether she is genuine or a bandwagon-climbing fruitcake I have no idea, but Liddle for one is taking her seriously.

 

One claims to have been molested by JS when shewas14. But it is now alleged that she was 23 at the time of the JS visit and had left the school 9 years previously.

 

A man now says that he was lured into the back-seat of Savile’s car but grabbed the door-handle and leaped out. Except that the car was a Rolls Corniche which is two-door and so has no rear handles.

 

Another woman claims to have been abused at age 14 by JS when she was in the audience of ‘Clunk-click’. But she was 16 when she was present for that particular programme.

 

It would seem that the media are not interested in any of these stories, neither are they interested in interviewing others whose testimony rather tends to gainsay the juicy stuff, such as the old lady who was in charge of Duncroft at all material times (they door-stepped her initially, but rapidly lost interest when what she had to say didn’t follow the script).

 

And it was reported yesterday that  Messrs Sue, Grabbit & Runne are now on the case coincidentally with the announcement that Savile’s £4 million estate has been frozen. No surprises there, then.

 

Could it possibly be that the decision to drop the Newsnight expose was correct after all?