I'm up to the bit where Karin is called to the stand to give evidence on oath against Freddie Starr. But before showing you extracts of this let me give you an overview of Karin's childhood, according to her that is !
From the age of three Karin has been abused emotionally by her natural mother who was herself adopted via Barnados. Karin acquires a step-father who sexually abuses her. ALL the kids at her primary school hate her calling her names, she absconds from her next fee paying convent school and is sent to the council run Columbine School in Norfolk. Columbine, yes really !
But here's where Karin's story get real interesting, because it's courtesy of Columbine that she gets to meet Jimmy Savile ! So she says
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Notice, it's June 1971 has she been reading her legally obtainable education reports ?
'Another place' ?
So, here we are being asked to believe that :
1) Karin met Sir Jimmy Savile in Jersey in the summer of either 1971 or 1972. Jimmy was certainly there in 1972 as he was in 1969. As was Dee Coles ....
So that's TWO mini-buses on Jersey in the summer of 1972 - did Norfolk County Council get permission to take their bus ? Did Jimmy ?
But forget Dee, what the hell is this ? From my archive news reports dated 15th October 2012. This has to be Karin ?
Goodness, Gracious - the plot that thickens itself ! Someone help me out here !
http://rabbitaway.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/jersey-girls-pt-2.html
Karin Ward is sitting in court listening to Susan describing how she had met Savile not at Duncroft, Jimmy hadn't fetched up there by chance. No, he had met her at a social function and it was she who invited HIM to visit her thereafter. Now, read this strange passage
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Strange how memory works - Ward has forgotten so much of what went on that night, for example, how the school staff had come to be in the audience and not onstage with the girls. Stands to reason that the same women would have been with the girls as they toured the dressing rooms before and after the show !
Ward's own memory has kicked in by the time she gets round to writing her book
'All' that would include Theo and Miss Jones then ?
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Younger by six months ? How old were you then Karin, I'm on page 40 and you still haven't said.
A lift home ? Did he think she wasn't part of the school party ? The one that came in a mini-bus ?
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Dream on Karin, he's just another has-been hack, feeding on Savile, thanks to you and his mate, soon to be ex-BBC hack, Jones ( Miss Jones's nephew) was he there too ? In the audience I mean, or maybe on the bean bags !!!
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Back to court via the ladies toilet where she finds
Susan. The ever proper Susan who still calls toilet's WC's and knows
that one witness is really NOT supposed to speak to another.
To be continued
The title I partly drew from Henriques Report which, amongst other things, suggests that those who make claims about others, should be referred to as complainants and not victims, in the first instance that is. No such rule appears to apply to the, cast in stone, victims of Sir Jimmy Savile, but that's another story, today I'm concerned with this one, and boy am I glad Karin Ward wrote this book. Yes really, I am
The book is a continuance of Ms Ward's previous missives but with a twist. This one contains FACTS, things we know for sure actually happened. The most important of these being this !
Here are extracts from Ward's book - enjoy
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Chapter two begins where Ms Ward's miseries apparently began, where the heart should be that is
Not being liked appears to have been a life-long occupation for Ms Ward, but I digress, back to court. Now here's where things get real interesting, because here is where we first see published Susan's testimony and, in some ways more importantly, Wards reaction to seeing her again so many years later
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Ward, it didn't actually remember just HOW Jimmy Savile managed to arrive at Duncroft School bearing gifts, until Susan revealed all from the witness stand
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Now, let's hold it right there shall we ? You see, I know that Susan related this story of how Jimmy Savile lay beside Susan on a bed and masturbated, because I was there in court as the lawyers made a big deal about it in the closing speeches. I never mentioned this before but I surely would have done had I heard the rest of the story which actually corroborates what I've always believed, that Jimmy would not have forced himself on anyone, let alone a young woman in an altered state of awareness.
The words I heard were that he lay 'behind' her. Now, why should he miss an opportunity as good as this if he was the monster who spent every waking minute thinking of abusing young girls ?
If it doesn't make sense, it isn't true !
To be continued !
Sorry folks I've been a tad unwell for a few weeks. But, I just couldn't end the day without wishing Sir Jimmy a great big HAPPY 90th Birthday. Back in 1977 when folk were sensible celebrities such as Jimmy fronted various public service campaigns. You may have seen this image before, alongside some moronic comment about who NOT to let babysit your little ones.
Yes, another one from my library - here's inside the annual
Yes, that's 1977 when some 8, 11 or 12 year old was being attacked in the TV room at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. 1977, by which time, the world and his wife had heard tales about Jimmy yet, there he is a poster boy for child protection !
The book and no doubt the BBC TV program presented advice for childminders, things to look out for, signs that their charges might be in some kind of danger
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Two years later, Jimmy's still the greatest thing since sliced bread
Meirion Jones is a couple of years older than me, he'd be about 22 when this annual came out. Old enough to pick up that phone and call someone anonymously if need be. It was only seven years since he'd claimed to have seen Jimmy at his auntie's approved school for delinquent girls.
No, the majority of the population of Great Britain loved Jimmy Savile OBE
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Not easy to make out but that's a cheque for the NSPCC Jimmy's holding in his hand
Try as I might, I still haven't found anything that even remotely comes close to proving that Jimmy did anything except good for others. So, again I say : Well done Sir Jimmy. I know you're still smiling down on us !
Onwards !
