……………..as documentary maker Louis Theroux admits his guilt at letting paedophile TV presenter off easy.
- Savile caught grabbing teen on camera during BBC doc filmed in 2000
- Clip shows sick TV star rubbing himself on girl and touching her bottom
- Footage originally caught for BAFTA-winning film, When Louis Met Jimmy
- Clip to be shown for first time in Theroux’s new Savile BBC doc tomorrow
Peadophile TV presenter Jimmy Savile was caught groping a teenage girl by BBC cameras while filming a Louis Theroux documentary.
Sickening pictures show arch-pervert Savile rubbing himself on the teen and touching her bottom in front of her mother, who he is believed to have known, at the Flying Pizza restaurant in Leeds in 2000.
Footage of the assault will be aired for the first time on BBC2 on Sunday, during Theroux’s documentary Louis Theroux: Savile.
The clip, which shows Savile wearing a vest-top and with his hair in a ponytail, was never included in Theroux’s acclaimed documentary ‘When Louis met Jimmy…’ which went on to win a BAFTA in 2002.
After Savile’s death in 2011, aged 84, it emerged that the broadcaster and long-time charity campaigner had sexually abused hundreds of women and children.
He molested victims as young as five at NHS hospitals during decades of unrestricted access and as many as 72 victims while working at the BBC.
His earliest victim at the BBBC was assaulted in 1959 and his latest in 2006, while working on Top of the Pops.
In his 2000 documentary, Theroux questions Savile over rumours that he was sexually interested in children.
During a chilling exchange Savile says: ‘We live in a very funny world.
‘And it’s easier for me, as a single man, to say ‘I don’t like children’, because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.
Theroux asks: ‘Is that basically so the tabloids don’t pursue this whole is he or isn’t he a paedophile line?’
Savile replies: ‘Oh, aye.
‘How do they know whether I am not? How does anybody know whether I am? Nobody knows whether I am or not. I know I’m not… That’s my policy and it’s worked a dream.’
It has since been revealed that Theroux tried to report sexual abuse carried out by Savile after making the film, but it was not followed up.
The filmmaker claims he reported the presenter in 2001, after he confessed to sleeping with a 15-year-old girl, but a BBC producer did not talk to police.
In his eagerly anticipated new film, Theroux meets with Savile’s victims and discusses the effect the abuse had on their lives as well as the impact of his documentary.
The filmmaker has since spoken of his guilt about not doing more to expose Savile.
In a revealing piece on the BBC website, he said that, like it was suggested by Savile’s victims, he had been ‘hoodwinked’ by the paedophile.
He wrote: ‘At the time [of the 2000 documentary], I’d done my best to be tough with him. I knew he was weird and, with all his mannerisms, rather irritating – I had no interest in making a soft piece about Jimmy the Charity Fundraiser.
‘The dark rumours – of sexual deviance, of being unemotional, of having a morbid interest in corpses – were one of the reasons I’d taken him on as a subject.
‘I wanted to get the goods on Savile. The trouble was, I had no clear sense of what those goods were.’