Lynn Barber recalls ‘harrowing’ moment with Jimmy Savile: ‘Now I shudder’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Veteran journalist Lynn Barber has recalled an encounter with Jimmy Savile that makes her “shudder”. “As we passed the bed of one very young, very pretty, paralysed girl, he stroked her hair and said: ‘Now I can have my evil way with you, my dear!’ At the time I thought it was a joke in poor taste, but now I shudder.” Barber goes on to explain that she interviewed him again in 1990 for The Independent, when he had just been given a knighthood. Lynn Barber in ‘Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story’ She had heard the rumours that he “liked little girls”, so asked him about it.