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Broadmoor Hospital 'will cooperate' with Jimmy Savile investigation

By Becky Barnes
October 11, 2012

Broadmoor Hospital says it will cooperate with the police investigation into Jimmy Savile abuse claims.

Sir Jimmy did a 'tremendous' amount of fundraising for the hospital, in Kentigern Drive, Crowthorne, and volunteered there for a number of years.

Today an ex-patient has claimed in a national newspaper she was groped by the TV star.

Alison Pink, who is now a man called Steven after a sex change, waived anonymity and claimed Sir Jimmy touched her when she was 17.

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A West London Mental Health NHS Trust spokeswoman said: "We have not been approached by police or by any former patients or their representatives with any allegations of abuse by the late Jimmy Savile.

"If we are contacted by the police we will of course cooperate with any investigation involving the hospital.

"These allegations relate to a time when Broadmoor was a separate, somewhat isolated organisation, not part of a wider NHS Trust.

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"The hospital became more integrated into the wider NHS when it became part of West London Mental Health NHS Trust in 2001 and a different working culture was introduced.

"Procedures and protocols, notably security arrangements, have changed significantly in the past decade to reflect that different culture.

"The monitoring of patients and their interaction with both staff and volunteers is undertaken as a routine to ensure inappropriate behaviour does not happen.

"In today’s Broadmoor, volunteer access and activity in the Hospital is strictly controlled and monitored. Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) and character reference checks are carried out for everyone who we recruit to volunteer in the Hospital.

"We operate within strict child and adult safeguarding guidelines and work closely with our local authorities colleagues on this."

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WLMHT forgot to mention that in 2000 they let Savile and Louis Theroux into the hospital with a camera crew without prior authorization or permission to film, that is until the management found out, the footage was never shown and Savile had his keys revoked. He could still be seen walking around the Hospital throughout the 2000's (escorted) and was using his grace and favour flat as late as 2009.