Quote: lofthouse @ October 4 2012, 11:33 PM BST
It's more of a shame that all his mates and fellow employees who clearly knew what he was up to chose not to go to the cops.
I think Savile hung with a very dodgy gangstery crowd. They wouldn't have given two poos about his behaviour.
As for the BBC at that time, unless someone came forward with irrefutable evidence, there's not much they could have done.
But it does bring up a very interesting moral dilemma. There are loads of criminals at the top, who do all sorts of illegal and immoral deals and yet have thousands of people working for them, relying on them to make a living wage. Is it worth losing your job, mortgage, future earnings, etc. by being a whistleblower? What if you do go to the police and there's an unsuccessful prosecution? How would you pay your bills? Who would hire you again? How can one person, a relative nobody, take on such powerful figures single handed?
It's a toughie.