Sue, 16, on Jimmy Savile cruise ship attack
Grinning beast ... Savile pulls liner victim Sue on to bed in friend's snap
A VICTIM molested by Jimmy Savile on a cruise liner told last night how the star DJ lured her to his cabin and abused her when she was a starstruck 16-year-old.
Holidaymaker Sue Southgate was with a girl pal when he approached the two teenagers promising autographs.
The unsuspecting pair followed him giggling to his first class quarters on the P&O liner SS Canberra where he startled them by casually taking off his trousers — even though Sue’s friend had her camera.
Begging Sue for a “quick cuddle” as her chum took souvenir photos, the Top Of The Pops pervert — then aged 51 — pulled her on to his bed.
Sickening ... perv's 'cuddle' just before Sue, 16, was abused
He then brazenly grinned for her friend to take snaps — before seconds later turning into a depraved monster. Sue said:
“He was very forceful and wrapped himself right around me. It was quite frightening.
“At one point he slipped out of his pants and started rubbing himself up against me. I could feel that he was excited.
“He grasped me very tightly in his arms and told me to do the same to him.
“He said: “This is a special move that will help you stop the boys getting away.””
Sue, now 51, said days after it emerged the paedo was thrown off the ship for preying on a 14-year-old: “I was totally freaked out by it all. I pushed him away and bolted for the exit.”
The market researcher, of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks, said: “I thought he was a harmless old man, a wholesome father figure. That’s how he came across on TV.
“But if my friend had not been there, I’m sure he would have forced me to have sex with him.”
The girls were holidaying with their parents when Savile pounced in 1978.
Sue told how the late Jim’ll Fix It star — branded a sex predator by cops who suspect he preyed on more than 60 young victims over decades — made “a big show of himself on board the ship”.
She said: “He was prancing up and down the corridors, introducing himself to everyone. He was obviously on the lookout for potential targets.”
Shirtless ... BBC's Savile posing in his pants in his mid-50s
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Savile was kicked off the ship after a distraught couple accused him of inappropriate behaviour with their daughter aged just 14.
The captain said: “I told him he disgusted me and I wanted him off my ship when we reached Gibraltar. I told an officer to make sure he remained in his cabin. He was not allowed to leave it under any circumstances short of shipwreck.”
Yesterday another of Savile’s victims told of being lured to his room at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Bucks, where he was a charity volunteer.
She was 17 and working in the kitchens — and fled after Savile pinned her to his bed after letting her try on his trademark heavy gold bracelets.
Cruise hell ... depraved star was kicked off liner Canberra
Now aged 46, she said: “He was like a leech on my face trying to put his tongue down my throat. He was obviously quite excited.”
Next day he told her to keep quiet — and gave her a fiver. Just seven years ago Savile recognised her in a restaurant — grabbing her arm as she headed to the loo.
He told her: “You left an earring on my pillow.”
Meanwhile a Cambridgeshire woman who went to a school where Savile abused at least five girls in the 70s has told police he molested her twice.
Top probe team
Investigation ... Kate Lampard
A FORMER barrister has been brought in to oversee investigations into Savile’s activities at Stoke Mandeville, Broadmoor and Leeds General Infirmary.
The PM’s office said Kate Lampard — a former deputy chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service — had been appointed by the Health Secretary to provide “independent oversight”.
Former High Court judge Dame Janet Smith and ex-Sky News executive Nick Pollard are leading the BBC’s independent review of sex abuse claims.
It has been forced to extend its probe into wrongdoings at the corporation back to the 1920s.
Beeb chiefs are urgently contacting reporter John Simpson, who claimed a BBC star from the 1920s to the 1950s named as “Uncle Dick” preyed on kids.
Labour’s Harriet Harman has called for a broad inquiry into the scandals, saying: “Clearly something terrible went on across a number of institutions.”
Abuse claims ... Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville
BBC presenter John Humphrys 'trivialises' sex ordeals
By ALEX WEST
Uproar ... Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys
BBC veteran John Humphrys was last night accused of trivialising some Savile allegations in a radio interview.
Shocked listeners heard him tell Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman on Radio 4’s Today show that some of the revelations were mere “banter”.
Ms Harman said: “We’re talking about serious sexual assault here.”
Humphrys, 69, replied: “Well we’re not always though, are we? In some cases girls are talking about him putting his hand on their leg.
“That’s not the sort of behaviour we should accept. Nonetheless, in many cases, it’s not serious sexual assault.”
He also argued against the need for an independent inquiry into Savile’s behaviour at the BBC, saying: “There is a danger of a witch-hunt here.”
Peter Saunders, from the National Association of People Abused in Childhood, said: “These comments perpetuate the myth that abuse isn’t a big deal. This is a serious issue and he’s trivialising it.”
A HOSPITAL cafe at Stoke Mandeville which was named Jimmy’s in honour of Savile will be renamed.
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