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Watch chilling footage as Jimmy Savile quizzed by police over paedophile claims

Sinister footage showing paedophile Jimmy Savile protesting his innocence has been revealed. The sex offender is captured on police footage as he insists he has committed no crime.

The film will be aired as part of a new Netflix documentary - Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story. It sees the predator fiercely deny allegations put to him, reports The Mirror.

It shows a number of film clips including the police footage where he is quizzed. He tells an officer: "I'm proud that, in 83 years, I have never ever done anything wrong."

Savile was a hero to many people, including children, before his death. But following his death in 2011 hundreds of people claimed he had abused them.

It transpired there had been numerous other allegations while he was still alive. Tragically many of his victims failed to have their voice heard with many simply not being believed.

However some were listened to and Savile was questioned about the reports which he dismissed at "impossible and untrue".

In a new Netflix documentary, streaming from today, the chilling recording sees Savile rant that the interrogation was "starting to sound like the Mad Hatter's tea party".

The detective constable from Surrey Police interviewing Savile announces her name for the tape, and then Savile rages: "I'm proud that, in 83 years, I have never ever done anything wrong."

She asks: "Are you sexually attracted to girls under 16?" He responds in fury: "Impossible and untrue!"

Jimmy Savile (PA)

The DC questions: "Have you ever sexually assaulted any girl under the age of 16?" Savile rages: "Never! Never! Out of the question. Never happened. This is starting to sound like the Mad Hatter's tea party, this."

The documentary also unearths old clips of Savile openly alluding to his sexual violent tendencies towards women as he speaks to reporter Phil Tibenham. Tibenham says: "You're always doing something physical like cycling or wrestling or something. Are you in some way trying to punish yourself?

"Oh, no, not at all," Savile replies. "The only time you punish yourself is when you are with young ladies. Then you punish yourself because you're such a villain. You should be kind to them and you're not kind to them. And you squeeze them and make 'em go 'ouch' and things like that."

After Savile died, hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse and recollections from witnesses surfaced. The allegations included children as young as two and patients of Stoke Mandeville Hospital where Savile, who raised millions for charity allowing him to avoid the accusations, volunteered as a porter.

At the infamous psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, one nurse told an investigation the presenter had boasted he had "mucked about" with some of the corpses in the mortuary. An investigation found that his interest in dead people was "not within accepted boundaries".

*Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story is available to stream on Netflix

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