Jimmy Savile's Glencoe cottage set to be demolished after vote by locals

[Emrys]

A COTTAGE that was once owned by Jimmy Savile is set to be demolished after locals backed the move in an online consultation.

The forum was set up by the Glencoe property’s current owner, the family of retail tycoon Harris Aslam.

It was originally purchased at auction after Savile’s death for £212,000 with the buyer intending to live there.

It has been repeatedly vandalised with slogans over the years since his death.

The depraved paedophile is believed to have abused up to 20 people inside his remote lair nestled in the Highlands.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19570978.jimmy-saviles-glencoe-cottage-set-demolished-vote-locals

I'm glad the new owner took the step of running a local public consultation. Human-made landmarks are thin on the ground as you journey through Glencoe (well, since the massacre, anyway), and this cottage has been one of the most prominent for many years, even before Savile lived there (it was once the home of mountain rescue pioneer Hamish MacInnes).

A cynic might say that the opportunity of a razed brownfield site in that prized location with the prospect of building a modern, presumably more spacious des res will suit the owner well. But the cottage's very stones are soaked in the misdeeds that were plotted there, in what has long been a very beautiful, but to some people at times brooding and sinister, part of the world even before Savile became infamous. I wonder if a new build will be able to erase that plot's recent history?

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. I'd much rather it was remembered as the plot of land where Hamish MacInnes lived

than the house where Saville abused people. I'd hope a different house, which could also be slightly differently located, would have people think of it differently.

[marble falls]

2. Magical thinking. Saville was a monster and that house is a house.