The Royal Marines have begun cutting their long-standing ties with Jimmy Savile amid continuing public revulsion at his alleged child sex abuse crimes.
A framed photo of the late TV star and charity fundraiser has been removed from a function suite named in his honour at the Marine training school at Lympstone, near Exmouth, Devon.
The Marines are now considering officially renaming the suite, currently known as the Savile Room.
Savile was awarded one of the Marines’ coveted green berets after a week’s training course at Lympstone in the 1960s.
He maintained his links with the elite naval corps and the beret was buried alongside him following his death last October.
His coffin was also carried into his funeral service at St Anne’s Cathedral in Leeds by seven Marines.
Police believe Leeds-born Savile may have abused up to 60 victims – many of them teenage girls – over six decades.
Yesterday (Oct 18) another of his alleged victims came forward to tell her story.
She claims to have first encountered Savile at a Manchester disco in 1966 when she was just 15. They are then said to have met regularly for sex at a flat he had in Salford.
The woman, now a 62-year-old mum-of-two, wants Savile to be stripped of his knighthood.
She said: “To hear him still described as Sir Jimmy Savile and still celebrated for his charity work is a slap in the face to those of us he used.”
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