Re: Allegations about Jimmy Saville: covered up?
According to the Daily Telegraph AccyX she did complain.
"Despite being in shock over what had just happened, the young woman, who had just graduated from university realised she had to tell someone about what had just happened and went straight to her boss, Peter Kessler, a BBC producer and blurted out: “'Oh my God, Dave Lee Travis just grabbed my ****.”
She explained: "I just remember being in a bit of a flap, not knowing what to do ... It was just the most weird, surreal thing. I was mildly hysterical, it was wildly, definitely the weirdest thing that has happened in my life.
“One moment I was smoking a cigarette and the next thing he was sexually assaulting me.”
Perhaps fearing for her future career, or perhaps too shocked and embarrassed about what had happened the young woman decided not take the matter any further with the police or senior BBC executives.
She decided to put the matter behind her and as the years went by she realised her dream and began to forge her own successful career in the entertainment industry."
It was then that her anger over the incident began to build and it started to bother her that she had not pursued the matter at the time.
She said: “For years I didn't talk about it to anyone, if his name came up I would say 'oh he's a wrong 'un. But when I got to my 30s I began to think that was really out of order.
“It wasn’t par for the course. I got cross that he had done it. What an awful thing to do to someone when they are trying to get on with their job.”
Eventually in 2012 following the exposure of the Jimmy Savile scandal, she decided to open up to a male friend, who also worked in showbusiness.
Despite having confided in friends about what had happened, it was not until Travis appeared in court charged with a string of other similar allegations that she plucked up the courage to go to the police."
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