JIMMY SAVILE got away with child abuse for decades because the establishment looks after its own.
He formed an improbable friendship with Margaret Thatcher and was a frequent guest at Chequers during Christmas and New Year. He was also a multi-millionaire.
He was rich and the children he abused at the Duncroft Approved School, and elsewhere, were poor.
Did the tabloids steer clear of Savile because he was a wealthy, right wing Conservative supporter?
Maybe it was easier to spend their time hacking the phones of celebrities and murdered school girl Millie Dowler?
John Gilmore, Bishop Auckland.
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