TV personality Jimmy Savile was in total denial of sex abuse allegations as far back as 2007.
In a Newstalk interview at the time he rejected that any such claims even existed.
It comes as his gravestone is due to be broken up and put in landfill.
The elaborate monument was based at a cemetery in Scarborough.
His family asked for it to be taken down after claims the late presenter abused up to 25 girls as young as 13 over 40 years.
Less than a year ago his death sparked an outpouring of emotion across the UK with hundreds turning out to pay their respects to a television icon.
But now feelings towards him are changing as police say they are looking into 120 lines of inquiry against a man they now believe was a “predatory sex offender”.
More victims are still being urged to come forward.
In the 2007 Newstalk interview allegations of sexual abuse were put to him.
They had been mentioned in a documentary by television presenter Louis Theroux in April 2000.
Newstalk presenter Orla Barry put the question to him that rumours were emerging about his abuse of children.
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