Every horrible thing that happened to her was when she was 19; and everything that happened in her past, led to how she'd respond to her kidnapper and rapist. Just like me she clearly has a narcissistic mother but hers was definitely worse!! I'm not even sure why I decided to read this book, and it wasn't an easy read. Jimmy Savile was so much a part of people's lives, especially in the 1970's and 1980's. I never liked him as a DJ, he was irritating and too old. But I was intrigued to learn more about the man behind the facade. When I learned of his death, I felt a mixture of anger, sadness and frustration. I attended his three-day funeral, which began at Leeds Cathedral and ended with his gold coffin being lowered into a grave dug at a slope," he added. "It was later marked with a giant gravestone bearing the epitaph 'It was good while it lasted'. Less than a year later, the gravestone, like his legacy, was reduced to rubble. Though Savile wasn't a pirate radio DJ, he was there when the likes of the now discredited John Peel and others came ashore and developed and enjoyed the excesses of pop stardom Djs in the 1970's. Those DJs will tell you how women offered themselves to them, something which Davies describes as one of the temptations every DJ, on the radio or not, faced.

What becomes clear is that it's not just Savile who's in the frame here. It's celebrity. Our attitude towards it. The way we treat it. The adulation we afford it. I went for the audible option of this book, Narrated by the author himself, Ross Coulthart. Ross has an engaging reading voice, pleasant to listen to.That first interview, which was scheduled to last an hour, went on for the entire afternoon and into the early evening. It set the template for the series of lengthy meetings that followed, staged in the same flat in Leeds or in the seafront apartment he had bought for his beloved mother in Scarborough. In time, these summits began to stretch over days and nights. I think it's deeply worrying that 114 files have gone missing or have been destroyed. I don't see how the establishment will ever allow a true understanding of what has happened to emerge." Savile was too canny to ever give much away over numerous interviews despite, in hindsight, some obvious clues. Sadly it was only after he had died that his victims were taken seriously and the substance of the old, dark rumours were finally heard. Savile always insisted that his great secret was that he had no secrets. Nothing could have been further from the truth - there were numerous people and establishments (BBC, the Police, doctors, nurses, friends etc.) whose complacency, corruption and complicity allowed him to systematically ruin hundreds of lives. This makes ' In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile' a compulsive and deeply disturbing read, and one that avoids any sensationalism. Depressing, distressing and essential. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? Wie konnte ein Mann sechs Jahrzehnte lang mindestens 200 Kinder und Jugendliche missbrauchen, ohne dass jemand etwas merkte?

After he put the phone down, he showed me the letter his legal team had prepared for the publication in question, and reiterated how much money he had made from suing newspapers. I put it to him that he had spent the best part of 50 years in the media spotlight and never been the subject of so much as a kiss’n’tell. Why, given this spotless record, were the tabloids so intent on hunting him? This woman went through so much and eventually did find her happy ending, but in her years of being lost so many people judged her for not being "strong" or fighting harder.This book isn’t just hastily cobbled together, it’s obviously been in progress for some time, although because the investigation is still ongoing there are frustrating ommissions and occasional repetition as the book is rewritten to accommodate new evidence. And Savile himself is an expert at manipulation and obfuscation, so some stories will, unfortunately, never be told; hints of corruption and murder will likely never be resolved one way or another.