Healso told the inquiry of his suspicion that Savile was gay, and recalled one occasion when he'd picked Savile up one morning and the star had emerged with a teenage girl.
He lightheartedly recalled a "man with a high mission" who also enjoyed playing Stratego, a board game drawing on Napoleonic history, and belting out "La Marseillaise" and French nursery rhymes when the two companions found themselves in trying circumstances.