*** OFFICIAL BREXIT SUNLIT UPLANDS and #MEGA THREAD ***

[Poopadoop]

By investigating. The evidence clearly existed because it has been used to condemn him after his death.

The evidence has to both exist and be presented to someone who can do something with it. It's easy to say the evidence was there but it's not as easy to say it had been brought to the attention of the relevant authorities.

He was sure enough to risk being sued for libel. idk if he ever made a formal allegation to the cops, or tried to tip off journalists, or anything else other than ramble on a radio interview. It's not the point. The point was, it was known about in 1978.

He didn't call him a pedo in 1978. That's the point. He made some vague insinuations. For all anyone could have known from what he said on that interview, he might have meant Savile was dealing drugs out of his basement, or cheating at poker.

I'm making the assumption that if Johnny Rotten knew, then so did a lot of other people in showbiz and music. And by the end of the 80s, when Thatcher knew, the BBC were still not taking these rumours seriously. Everyone's talking about it but nobody is investigating it. Not the police, not his employers, nobody.

The only evidence you have that JR knew is that he said so twenty years after making some vague insinuations. Pretty weak.

Robert Armstrong, the head of the Honours Committee, resisted his knighthood during Thatcher's time. An anonymous letter received by the committee in 1998 said that "reports of a paedophilia nature" could emerge about Savile. I'm really not sure what it takes for you to think there was a cover up. They knew.

I'll grant you that there were suspicions, and I'll grant you that a better police force and prosecutor would have delved deeper than they did. But you can't conclude from rumours that "everybody knew." It's hindsight bias in the first degree.