I really had no intention of mentioning this when I started this post, but as I've been given such a hard time for simply pointing out that this man was by no means ALL bad and feeling sorry for his family, I will tell you here that I was quite badly abused myself as a child.I may have been a boy rather than a girl, but I was a particularly quiet, shy and frightened boy, and it seemed for several years that everyone around me was subjecting me to some form of abuse, mental, physical, and yes, even sexual on more than one occasion. Amongst these villains were family members, teachers and my fellow schoolboys. Even later on, when the actual "abuse" stopped, I was very badly bullied. I hate to say it but this is why I take such a brave and unswerving stance against the hoards of bullies I see on every board on this site every single day. In the real world, nobody bullies me anymore. Nobody is rude to me. I command respect. As for the ancient history? It;'s completely irrelevant to me now. I have forgiven and forgotten and moved on and I am a sdtronger and better person for putting it all behind me. I look bacvk on all my early troubles now in a positive fashion. It was character building. I would not like to be the same vulnerable, unhappy person at 45 as I was when I was 8. People do terrible things. They always have and they always will. But the simple fact is that Sir Jimmy Saville did some undisputably good things too and we shouldn't forget that.

Nick