Staff at Stoke Mandeville hospital were today accused of covering up Jimmy Savile’s sexual abuse of patients and allowing it to carry on.
Liz Dux, a lawyer acting for 40 alleged victims, said two girls under 16 were abused by him as patients and when they told hospital staff nothing was done.
Her claims came before a second documentary about Savile, which explores the “culpability” of institutions in allowing him to abuse hundreds of children.
Ms Dux said: “If someone goes into hospital and makes a complaint about being abused, it should be taken seriously.” The two women are suing the hospital trust Buckinghamshire Healthcare.
A Trust spokesman said: “We are thoroughly reviewing all information available to establish the processes and arrangements in place over the past 40 years.”
Savile’s family were today trying to get ITV to remove a segment from tonight’s Exposure Update, which is said to include an interview with Caroline Robinson, 49, the DJ’s great-niece, in which she claims he abused her.
Meanwhile, lawyers for Lord McAlpine made a formal complaint to Scotland Yard about Twitter users who wrongly tweeted allegations that he was a paedophile. Greater Manchester police are to reinvestigate claims from 1974 onwards that Sir Cyril Smith, the former Lib-Dem MP, sexually abused boys.
