Jimmy Savile: The Investigation and Psychoanalytic Reflections
Organised by:
The British Psychoanalytic Council
Description
Date: Friday, 21 March 2025
Time: 16.00 – 18.00
Online, Zoom Meetings
This event is for BPC Registrants, Kite marked practitioners, Scholars, Trainees on BPC accredited courses, Retired category.
This event is an opportunity to explore the high-profile case of Jimmy Savile through a psychoanalytic lens.
Ray Galloway and Carine Minne will present the work that was undertaken during the independent investigation and offer an understanding of Savile’s offenses, the victims’ voices and the criminal court report that never was.
The scandal that took place captivated the media’s attention and sent shockwaves through the nation. In our role as a regulator, this case, viewed in the context of our Standards, helps to explore questions of safeguarding, raising concerns and professional candour.
Ray will present the work he was tasked to undertake, directing the independent investigation, interviewing over 200 victims, in order to produce the public report about Jimmy Savile’s involvement with Leeds Royal Infirmary. This led to Ray directing the NHS Savile Legacy Unit responsible for the oversight and quality assurance of all NHS investigations into Jimmy Savile around the country.
Carine will present a fictionalised report for the Criminal Court, based on all the facts that subsequently emerged, as if he had been arrested finally in 2007. The court report details the history of offending, addresses how and why he could have offended for so long, contains a fictionalised assessment of him in prison awaiting trial, and includes speculative diagnoses and medical recommendations to the court.
Part of this event will include considering the concerns raised, oversights made and what went wrong. How can we as professionals have the awareness of these issues that arise in our practice or place of work and what to look out for? At which point does one need to raise a concern and what are the considerations?
Ray and Carine are particularly interested in discussing what lessons can be learnt.
This event has limited spaces.
About the Speakers
Carine Minne is a BPC Registrant psychoanalyst with the BPAS and Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy at Broadmoor Hospital and was also at Portman Clinic 1994 – 2024 (NHS, Public Health Service, UK). She chairs the IPA Violence Committee in the Community and World and is Editor-in-Chief of the IJFP (International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy). Carine was President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy until May 2022. In her work, she brings together the disciplines of forensic psychiatry and psychoanalysis to work directly with offender patients in different settings, and indirectly, via teaching, training, and lecturing to professionals from various disciplines, nationally and internationally.
Ray Galloway is the Director of Blue Light Investigations and Training Limited. He retired from being a Detective Superintendent for North Yorkshire Police in 2013, having previously worked for Merseyside Police, with a total of 30 years in a range of investigative roles. He is a fully accredited Senior Investigating Officer with a breadth of experience in the investigation of homicide, organised crime and covert operations. He is also a trained and experienced Hostage Negotiator. Ray’s roles in the police service include those of Head of Major Crime, Head of Serious and Organised Crime and Director of Intelligence. He was the Kidnap and Extortion Champion for North Yorkshire and a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) national working group that identified best practice relating to the investigation of rape and serious sexual offences. Since his retirement from the police service Ray has directed the independent investigation into the activities of Jimmy Savile in Leeds and he was the co-author of the public report published in June 2014. From July 2014, Ray directed the NHS Savile Legacy Unit that was responsible for the oversight and quality assurance of all NHS investigations into Savile around the country. Again, he was co-author of the public report that was published in February 2015.
