Jimmy Savile great niece on abuse: 'Who would believe me?' - listen

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Jimmy Savile's great niece has said that she thought no-one would believe her if she told them that he abused her.

Caroline Robinson told BBC Radio 5 Live that she told one relative about the first incident but told no-one of the second time because she did not think anyone would believe her.






"I told my grandma... his sister Marjorie, I told her," she said of the first incident at a family party when she was 12.

"All she turned round and said, 'It's only Jimmy, it doesn't matter, I'll sort it out'. She was the one person that I trusted."

Of the second incident, at her own engagement party when she was 15, Robinson added: "I told him to get off, but the music was so loud and people were talking that my voice couldn't be heard.

"My initial reaction was to close my eyes and just go along with it and when I finished doing what he wanted me to do I just went outside and was sick.

"When I went home I had a bath with the excuse of the cigarette smoke because I don't smoke, and I couldn't wash his smell away."

Asked if she told anyone about what happened at the time, Robinson said: "I didn't, no.

"Who would believe me? Who would believe that Jimmy Savile could be like that?"
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