EXCLUSIVE: A mysterious mourner leaves flowers at the unmarked grave of serial pedophile Jimmy Savile, ten years after his black marble headstone was infamously destroyed.
- Savile’s grave was emptied and all traces of him were removed from the ground.
- But recently, a mysterious mourner laid flowers at his unnamed burial site.
- Savile has raped 57 women or girls and 15 boys on the BBC in his career.
- The hidden side of one of Britain’s most depraved sex offenders has surfaced after his death
A mysterious mourner left flowers on the unmarked grave of BBC serial pedophile Jimmy Savile, ten years after his headstone was destroyed in disgrace.
A child abusing an anonymous predator conspiracy in Scarborough’s Woodlands Cemetery has been a clean pasture since his crimes were exposed in 2012.
After his death – and before his terrible deeds became known – a huge black marble shop stood on this site with the epitaph “It was good while it lasted.”
The selfish maniac “Jim will fix everything” ordered his coffin to be placed at an angle so that he could “see the sea” and walled up in two and a half tons of reinforced concrete to scare off grave robbers.
When many of his victims told how he mistreated them, Savile’s surviving relatives and former friends said it would be removed and destroyed out of respect for them.
But now it looks like someone has unthinkably changed their mind.
Nearly a decade after his secret life as one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders came into the spotlight, a simple flower has been planted on his grave.
The cluster of three artificial flowers appears to have been recently placed there and shows no signs of weather wear.
There is no doubt that they were there by mistake, as no one else is buried within 15 feet of the site.
A cemetery visitor told MailOnline: “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the flowers there.
The unmarked grave site of pedophile Jimmy Savile, now with flowers in the exact spot
A tasteless tombstone as it was before the details of his heinous crimes became known and it was destroyed.
Savile prepares for the Bupa Great North Run October 1, 2006 in Newcastle, England.
“There is no mark or stone to tell what is there, but it is unmistakably the same place as was in the press at the time.
“No one walks next to him, there are no other monuments and graves nearby. The real question is, who would put those flowers there?”
Six years ago, the campaign to retrieve Savile’s body from the grave was abandoned because it would have cost too much.
The cost of excavating the pedophile from the triple site, where he is buried in a gold coffin with his gold jewelry, a handful of his trademark cigars and a Royal Marines green beret, has been estimated at £20,000.
His headstone, worth £4,000, was removed and smashed to pieces under the cover of darkness in October 2012.
Six years ago, Savile’s nephew Guy Marsden said he was disappointed that he couldn’t be cast.
He said: “It had to be done before he ran out of money.
“I thought this was the end when they took the stone, but since it is still buried there, this place is like a curse.
Despite Dame Janet’s criticism of the BBC’s respect for Savile, KPMG found “a culture within the BBC where people were afraid to approach talent to ask them to pass a DBS check”.
“Who wants their children buried somewhere near him? If they want to dig it up and burn it, I don’t care.
Scarborough adviser Colin Haddington, who supports his exhumation, also said: “Unfortunately, it looks like things will stay the way they are and everyone will just have to try and forget about it.”
“I hope the victims, those who have loved ones buried there, come to terms with this. Our hands are tied with funding.”
In 2016, the BBC sexual abuse publication Dame Janet Smith Review identified 72 victims of DJ Savile.
He was found to have raped 57 women or girls and 15 boys, with the youngest girl he raped being 13 and the youngest boy ten.
The earliest known incident was the rape of a 13-year-old girl at Lime Grove Studios in 1959, and the last known incident occurred during the last recording of Top of the Pops in 2006.