Up to eight more women claim to have been sexually abused by Sir Jimmy Savile, it was revealed today.
The alleged victims, who have never spoken before, came forward after a deluge of claims that the entertainer molested under-age girls at the height of his fame.
The new claims came as a woman was due to go to police today about being sexually abused in Savile’s dressing room by another TV presenter as singer Gary Glitter allegedly performed a sex act on a young girl nearby.
Karin Ward said she will make a complaint to the Met against the unnamed celebrity at the BBC over the alleged assault when she was 14. She initially told her story to BBC reporters for a Newsnight investigation into Savile, which was never screened.
In an ITV documentary tonight, she says: “I told Newsnight that I saw Gary Glitter have sex with a girl in Jimmy Savile’s dressing room … in that little alcove bit. I didn’t see it completely but that’s what was going on and nobody batted an eyelid. I also told them that I was horribly, horribly humiliated.”
She said she also saw Savile abusing another girl in the same room.
The Standard first revealed on Friday that up to 10 women have told ITV they were sexually abused by the former Jim’ll Fix It and Top Of The Pops star when they were young girls.
Ex-detective Mark William-Thomas, who is presenting tonight’s documentary Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile, said: “Up to eight women have come forward for the first time to tell me their stories over the last few days.
“I have urged them to go to the police. It is quite clear from this early response that there are lots more women out there with similar stories to tell.”
Five women are expected to tell their stories on the programme tonight.
Today it also emerged that at least four police forces investigated claims that Savile molested children, while Scotland Yard is looking into an allegation of rape dating back to 1986.
The BBC last night announced it is launching an internal inquiry into the complaints and working with police.
There were online calls today for Savile to be stripped of his knighthood.
