A victim of Jimmy Savile has revealed how a crew member on the BBC's Top of the Pops told her to 'go away' after she complained she had been groped on camera by the prolific sex offender.
Sylvia Edwards, of Twickenham, South West London, was 18 when she appeared beside Savile on the music show in November 1976 and told how the presenter's hand was 'rock solid' and she 'couldn't shift it out the way'.
Disturbing footage shows her desperately trying to get away from the paedophile while screaming and twisting as he grabs her out of view – and Ms Edwards said today how she was 'embarrassed' and his 'hand just kept moving'.
In the clip, Savile, who died in 2011, tells the viewers while staring at the camera as he continues to grope Ms Edwards: 'I tell you something, a fella could get used to this, as it happens, he really could get used to it.'
Mother-of-two Ms Edwards said she went to a 'man with headphones' and asked him: 'He's just put his hand up behind me and I didn't like it.' But she claimed that the man told her: 'Oh go away, that's just Jimmy, go away.'
She spoke to Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard on Good Morning Britain today ahead of a new documentary about Savile's decades-long career of abuse on ITV at 9pm tonight, called 'Savile: Portrait Of A Predator'.
Sylvia Edwards, who appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain, has revealed how a crew member on Top of the Pops told her to 'go away' after she complained she had been groped on camera by Jimmy Savile
Sylvia Edwards was 18 when she appeared beside the presenter on the BBC music show Top of the Pops in November 1976
In a preview clip on GMB today, Ms Edwards said: 'His hand wasn't going away, and I was trying to move it, but I tell you what his hand was rock solid and it would not move, it would not move. And I was getting embarrassed, because I couldn't shift it out the way, and I was getting shifted, you know what I mean, his hand just kept moving.'
Reacting to what she said, presenter Reid told GMB viewers: 'That's disgusting, Sylvia, and I just feel revolted, as anyone would do now – but also by the fact that whenever we were watching that it was all a big joke at the time. Nobody realised, and we should have done, what he was actually doing.'
And Ms Edwards told GMB: 'It's hard sometimes because I knew what was going on and I asked for help on it. When the camera went away from us we could actually get out of where we were because we were surrounded – the camera clogged us in.
Savile's victim spoke to Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard on Good Morning Britain today ahead of a new documentary
Operation Yewtree detective Gary Pankhurst, who was also on GMB today, followed up hundreds of reports of abuse by Savile
'And I went down and this man with headphones, I said to him: 'He's just put his hand up behind me and I didn't like it.' And he said: 'Oh go away, that's just Jimmy, go away.' Told me to go, leave.
'I was only with one girl at the time and we were talking about it on the way back home. But I knew it was wrong, but it was just because I'd been told to get lost, and it was the end of the thing, being ushered out, I just literally went home and told my dad, because there was no one else I can talk to.
'At the time he said he couldn't do anything to Jimmy Saville could he, and I don't suppose they thought about the police then.'
This new documentary for ITV explores how Savile engineered his career and lifestyle to abuse and escape detection, and why the BBC, hospital trusts and the police failed to stop him.
The programme features new testimony from those who were victims and who bore witness to his crimes, including Operation Yewtree detective Gary Pankhurst who followed up hundreds of reports of abuse by Savile.
In his first ever interview, Mr Pankhurst describes Savile as an abuser first who went on to become a celebrity - a high-functioning psychopath who learned from criminals early in his career as a DJ how to control and manipulate those around him.
He said Savile used this approach at the BBC and at the Top of
