Weird.
There's a very Jimmy Savile-like character in an Irving Welsh novel who gets to play with the corpses at his local hospital because he's such a generous benefactor. Perhaps that's where the rumours began.

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(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 11 May 2011, 18:04, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

That's basically the Savile story, relating to Stoke Mandeville hospital.
I do know that he was a very feared man in the clubland of the early 60s. The Krays left him well alone in Leeds and instead try to move in on Manchester and I believe Liverpool. They failed at that, too, anyway.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 11 May 2011, 18:09, Reply)

He's indisputably a creepy fucker.
I'd always had him down as a paedo. When I worked at the Beeb, a transcript of his guest appearance on Have I Got News for You did the rounds - it was an out-take in which Paul Merton basically accuses him of being a nonce then storms out.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Wed 11 May 2011, 18:16, Reply)