Sick Broadmoor visits of Savile and Harris: Pair were 'birds of a feather' who 'watched female patients undress'

• Savile victim says pair arrived on ward as patients prepared to strip for bed
• Ex-patient Steven George described duo as 'birds of a feather'
• Harris's 1973 hospital visit mentioned in last week's report on Savile's abuse
• Police found no evidence of wrongdoing by Harris

By Rebecca Camber, Crime Reporter and Martin Robinson

Rolf Harris was today linked to Jimmy Savile as it emerged he joined the paedophile on sick visits to a psychiatric hospital where the DJ habitually abused patients.

One of Savile’s victims said Harris ogled vulnerable women as they undressed at Broadmoor, where the former Top of the Pops star attacked scores of people.

Alison Pink remembered the pair suddenly turning up on a women’s ward just as patients were preparing to strip in the corridor.

'Birds of a feather': Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris, pictured appearing together on Jim'll Fix It, watched women in Broadmoor undress, according to a former patient

The ex-patient, now called Steven George after a sex change, believes the pair were ‘birds of a feather’.

He said: ‘Harris turned up one evening out of the blue.

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‘He was being shown around by Savile in an understated way. Normally stars only came if they were there for an official performance but Harris didn’t do one.

‘It was also unusual because visitors would come at visiting hours, between 10am and 4pm, but they came in as we were getting ready for bed.’ 

Documented: Harris's visit to the Berkshire hospital in 1973 was mentioned in last week's report on Savile's abuse

Yesterday Harris, 84, was told he faced an 'inevitable' jail term after he was found guilty of 12 indecent assaults on four victims between 1968 and 1986, often in 'plain sight'.

'Jekyll and Hyde' Harris had used his fame to 'mesmerise' underage fans before abusing them with impunity and believed his celebrity status made him believe 'he was above the law', Scotland Yard said. 

The Australian star spent 16 years abusing his daughter Bindi's best friend and got a 'thrill' from attacking her when his own child was feet away.

Account: A report into Savile's abuse said he had forced Broadmoor patients to strip

A seven-year-old girl was groped when she asked for his autograph at an event where he performed his hit 'Two Little Boys' for children.

Today it emerged that Harris could face fresh charges after more women found the courage to come forward after he was convicted yesterday, the Director of Public Prosecutions said.

While 12 others have already approached lawyers to apply for compensation from his £11million estate. 

He will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday. 

Harris’s visit to Broadmoor hospital in 1973 was mentioned in last week’s report on Savile’s abuse.

But police and child protection experts found no evidence of wrongdoing by Harris.

The report said Savile forced patients to strip, it stated: ‘We heard convincing accounts of a pattern of inappropriate behaviour surrounding Savile’s attendance on female wards at bath time and bedtime... female patients would be obliged to strip while lined up in corridors.

‘We heard that Savile followed a clear pattern of arriving on a female ward at just before this time.

‘Unchallenged by staff, he would then watch from behind, as the row of female patients undressed.’

Mr George, now 62, first wrote an account of Harris’ Broadmoor visit in his 2012 autobiography 'Heartless'.

Guilty: Harris leaves Southwark Crown Court today after he was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault

He was sent to the high-security psychiatric hospital as a teenager after running away from adoptive parents and setting fire to a property.

ROLF VICTIM WROTE TO QUEEN AND SAID: 'HARRIS RUINED MY LIFE'

A woman who says she was abused by Rolf Harris wrote to Buckingham Palace to say: 'He ruined my life. You need to know what kind of man you’ve let near the Queen'.
The alleged victim said she was attacked by him as a child and was furious when she learned the artist, 84, was to paint Her Majesty in 2005.
The note, written anonymously, was handed to the Queen's Royal Protection Group, linked to Scotland Yard, who filed them as evidence.
It wasn't until 2012, when Harris was arrested, that they were investigated.
Scotland Yard has refused to comment.

Top of the Pops host Savile was a frequent volunteer and was given his own keys and living quarters at the hospital.

He recalled how Savile took Harris to Lancaster ward, where women who were being punished had to strip in the corridor in front of warders.

He told the Mirror: ‘Harris was very famous at the time and had his weekend show. He walked down the passageway of York ward with Savile opening the doors along with a nursing officer.

‘Some of the girls came out and there was an unprompted performance of Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport. He then went through to the punishment ward.

‘At that time of the evening all the girls on that ward would have been undressed ready for bed.

‘We all had to get completely undressed in the hallway in front of the staff, male and female, to show nothing was being taken into our rooms.

‘I thought it was odd that he was walking through the female wards and not doing a show. It was strange that he arrived at the same time the women were undressing for bed.’

Harris and Savile were pictured together as they signed autographs at a fete in July 1973.

The artist also sketched Savile in 1992 when the former DJ was interviewed at HTV Studios in Bristol where Rolf was filming his ITV series Rolf’s Cartoon Club.