Jimmy Savile created his TV shows to gain access to children, according to Mark Williams-Thomas, the child protection expert who helped expose the late entertainer as a paedophile. The former police detective has been making a follow-up programme to his original ITV1 documentary into allegations that the star sexually abused vulnerable teenage girls. He told the Radio Times: "In the previous programme it was unclear what came first. "But I can very clearly tell you now that he created his television series as a vehicle for his offending. "I believe he engineered his programmes within the BBC and Radio Luxembourg in order to gain access to children. "The classic examples are Top Of The Pops, Savile's Travels, Jim'll Fix It - all of them gave him access to young children. That's why there were so many victims." He told the magazine of the follow-up documentary: "In the first programme, we focused on a fairly short time scale. Now we're able to show that Savile's offending behaviour spanned four decades and many hundreds of victims. "This isn't just someone who offended only against 13, 14 and 15-year-olds. It's someone who offended against 10-year-olds." The second programme, Exposure Update, investigates the full length of the TV star's four decades of abuse, from Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s, where he presented the Teen and Twenty Disc Club. The documentary also looks at how Savile got away with his abuse for so long, and whether the establishment turned a blind eye. Exposure Update wills creen on ITV1 on Wednesday, November 21.
