Savileâs Sex Den
By Mark McConville
LOOK inside this creepy abandoned psychiatric hospital where Jimmy Savile once carried out a string of sexual assaults during a summer gala.
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Eerie pictures and video show the crumbling remains of the hospital building while the sprawling grounds still seem in good condition.
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Other shots show what was once a grand hall deteriorating at the hands of time and a barred gate which would have separated wards.
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The images and footage were taken at High Royds Hospital in Menston, West Yorkshire by bartender Kieran Young (20) from Colne who posts as Exploring Lancashire.
âI had been here a few times previous but never found a way in,â he said.
âI’ve always love the look of Victorian buildings so this really took my eye so I kept going back to get in. After five or six attempts I finally got in with a friend.
âMy pictures encapsulate the past while also showing the morbid reality of the present.â
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According to an investigation report into a gala to mark the centenary of High Royds Hospital, published in June 2014, predator Saville groped women at the hospital during the event in 1988 and demanded a room in case he âpulled one of these young nursesâ.
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Staff said he cupped womenâs breasts and put his hands up someoneâs skirt but they did not formally complain at the time due to seeing it as an âoccupational hazardâ.
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High Royds Hospital first opened on 8th October 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum and closed in 2003.
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The facility closed after becoming outdated and unsuited to modern psychiatric practice.
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High Royds was only one of twenty-eight hospitals where Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to seventy-five over the decades he had access to victims.