I have met Jimmy Saville twice,, both times at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital Spinal unit, well before all his crimes were all out in the open.
He had just been out running,(in his bright green and yellow track suit and a bright green woolly hat, he was trying to raise money, for the spinal units swimming pool, that was out of use, with loads of broken tiles in the pool, and a bit of a mess.
I was on my first visit,with my late Mum,I was visiting my son, who had had an accident, and had become paralysed from the chest down.We arrived at the hospital, which had a huge foyer, and lots of stairs leading all over the area,so was a bit confused, as to where my son would be. We noticed Jimmy Saville, sitting on a seat in the foyer, tacking his trainers off, as they were all wet from the rain..
He immediately came to speak to Mum and myself, saying hello ladies. who are you looking for. So told him my sons name, and he immediately said, Oh, I know Robert, you will find him if you go up those two flights of stairs straight ahead, walk along the corridor, then you will reach a ward, on the left, and your son is in the first bed on the right., he is in the next bed to JOE. the elderly man who is 80, and is also now paralysed, after a young speeding driver, crashed into his car. Saville was all correct with this information.
It was very difficult to chat with Saville though, he was like he was on TV, Just jabbering away about lots of silly things, and never really listening to what you might say to him.