Bay City Rollers boss Paton was as bad as Savile

TV Nicky's verdict on band manager

- MARK JEFFRIES

AFTER investigating the dark side of the Bay City Rollers, broadcaster Nicky Campbell has compared the pop band's manager Tam Paton with paedophile Jimmy Savile.

Nicky's new ITV documentary looks at the Edinburgh group's rise to fame in the 70s as well as highlighting how Paton abused band members and took boys from care homes to his house where they were forced to have sex.

The Scot, 62, said: "Paton was similar to Savile in the way he groomed and abused people.

"It's that sense of entitlement, whether it's Savile, Paton, whether it's a teacher at a posh school. They can have what they want and there's no repercussions.

"Paton spiralled into this dark criminal underworld of drug dealing.