A TRADER is flogging a £25,000 car registration number as a “cherished plate for Christmas” without saying it used to belong to Jimmy Savile. The paedophile DJ had the personalised JS 247 plate on a number of his Rolls-Royces before he died in 2011. The 247 after his initials relates to the original frequency of […]
A TRADER is flogging a £25,000 car registration number as a “cherished plate for Christmas” without saying it used to belong to Jimmy Savile.
The paedophile DJ had the personalised JS 247 plate on a number of his Rolls-Royces before he died in 2011.
The 247 after his initials relates to the original frequency of Radio 1, where he made his name.
The advert was placed in a Sunday newspaper but carried no mention of a link with Savile, who was one of the UK’s most prolific sex offenders.
In 2012, a scrap dealer paid £160,000 for the former Top of the Pops presenter’s Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible — with the same plate — shortly before allegations about his sex attacks came out.
The unnamed buyer immediately wanted to get rid of it after Savile’s heinous crimes were exposed following his death.
He consulted lawyers in a bid to return the car, which was bought at a charity auction, and get his money back.
The buyer said: “I don’t want to be associated with it. I’m just gutted because all of this should have come out beforehand.”
According to industry experts, number plates containing just two letters are normally attractive to collectors.
But anything connected to Savile is now “worthless”.
