A Yorkshire coast Jimmy Saville supporter is selling merchandise with the visage of their hero serial paedophile at their antique shop in Whitby.
With a price tag of £100, the Whitby-based antiques company displays a “rare” Jimmy Savile product: ‘Jimmy Dazzle’ washing powder in the store window.
The label states: “Very unusual survival from 1974. Jimmy Savile visits Proctor and Gamble Laboratory. Unopened, flawless, perfect item (washing powder).”
Specifically designed to honour Jimmy Savile’s visit to the Research Laboratories of Procter & Gamble Limited on 29 August 1974, the pink-boxed detergent was put on central display in the Whitby antique shop.
Though Savile was among the most famous figures in Britain, his misdeeds were discovered following his death.
He had been using his position to target hundreds of people, men and women, boys and girls, but primarily young, vulnerable females.
In dressing rooms, hospitals, schools, children’s homes, and his caravan, he also attacked and raped them.
A 2013 publication on Savile’s actions titled “Giving Victims a Voice” said that the scope of his crimes was “to the best of our knowledge, unprecedented in the UK”.
Thought to have started in the middle of the 1940s, around his late teens or early twenties, the mistreatment continued until 2009, two years before his death.
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