It wasn't until after Jimmy Savile's death it came to light that one of Britain's biggest stars was a predatory sex offender. Investigations revealed he sexually abused hundreds of victims over several decades. He was best known for tea-time TV favourites like Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It as well as stints on BBC Radio 1.

Savile would often exploit his status as a BBC personality to prey on hundreds of people - girls and boys, men and women, but mostly vulnerable young females. He assaulted and raped them in television dressing rooms, hospitals, schools, children's homes and his caravan.

The scale of Savile's crimes was "to the best of our knowledge unprecedented in the UK", according to a report into his activities titled Giving Victims A Voice, which was published in 2013. His reported crimes begin as early as 1955 and weren’t properly revealed until after his death, at the age of 84, in 2011.

It was later unearthed Savile had a morbid obsession with the dead as Express.co.uk details the chilling truth behind his rings.

Back in 2014 the police investigated an allegation published in a University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust report linked to the death of a young girl at a children's care home near Loughborough in the 1960s.

Savile claimed to more than one person that some of his elaborate rings were made using the glass eyes of dead bodies from his "friends" at Leeds General Infirmary, Dr Sue Proctor, lead investigator at LGI, said at the time.

The late entertainer, who had spoken of his interest in dead bodies in various media interviews, told a student nurse that he committed sex acts on the bodies in the hospital's mortuary when it was "quiet".

Savile spoke publicly about his fascination with the dead and confessed to a nurse at Broadmoor that he enjoyed interfering with the bodies, including posing with the bodies of men and women and photographing them.

"Interfering" with bodies included removing parts of them and making them into jewellery.

When someone commented on the item, he claimed they were made of glass eyes he had stolen from corpses -one from a close friend. Another was made into a pendant necklace, which he then wore for the final Top of the Pops.

Police forces did have chances to take Savile to court while he was alive - but no charges were ever brought.

In 2009, the Crown Prosecution Service looked at four allegations dating back to 1970, but decided not to pursue a case because the victims would not support police action.

Savile was interviewed under caution and said the allegations had been invented by the complainants, who he claimed were after money.

He threatened to take legal action against the police and mentioned that he had sued five newspapers in the past.