Bay Metropolis Rollers boss Tam Paton ‘abused and groomed his victims in an analogous method to Jimmy Savile’

Nicky Campbell has in contrast Bay Metropolis Rollers supervisor Tam Paton to Britain’s most infamous paedophile Jimmy Savile in the way in which he abused and groomed his victims in a brand new ITV documentary.

Campbell will current a brand new TV present on the channel charting the rise of the tartan-clad group, which secured worldwide success with songs together with Bye Bye Child, I Solely Wanna Be With You and Shang-a-Lang, in addition to Paton’s darkish historical past of sexual assault.

Paton, who died of a coronary heart assault in 2009 aged 70, allegedly abused band members and enticed boys from care houses to his house the place he would power them to have intercourse with him.

Campbell stated: ‘Paton was just like Savile in the way in which he groomed and abused individuals. It is that sense of entitlement, whether or not it is Savile, Paton [or] a trainer at a complicated faculty. They’ll have what they need and there isn’t any repercussions.

Supervisor of the Bay Metropolis Rollers Tam Paton (pictured in 2003) has been in comparison with Jimmy Savile in the way in which he abused and groomed his victims

Pictured: Scottish pop group the Bay Metropolis Rollers. Left to proper: Eric Faulkner, Les McKeown, Alan Longmuir, Stuart ‘Woody’ Wooden and Derek Longmuir.

After his dying, police concluded that Jimmy Savile had been a predatory intercourse offender and prolific peadophile

‘You bought these lads – 17, 18 years previous – who needed to be pop stars, however to dwell the dream, there is a cope with the Satan.’

The band’s guitarist Pat McGlynn claimed that he had been the topic of an tried rape by Paton in Australia in 1977, however the police couldn’t collect adequate proof to mount a prosecution.

McKeown claimed in a 2015 interview that Paton had additionally helped one other man power himself on McKeown whereas he was excessive on Quaaludes. 

‘It was hell,’ McKeown stated. ‘However we had been simply daft wee laddies, following somebody.’

In 1982, Paton served one 12 months of a three-year jail sentence after pleading responsible to molesting boys over a three-year interval.  

Paton, who grew to become a profitable property developer in Edinburgh, was questioned over baby intercourse abuse allegations in 2003 however the investigation was later dropped. On the time he stated: ‘I used to be in my home on the time, as a result of actually since all this began I’ve not been capable of exit.

A documentary fronted by Nicky Campbell (pictured with band member Pat McGlynn) explores the Bay Metropolis Rollers’ rise – in addition to Paton’s darkish sexual assault claims

Pictured: Paton in 1976 (left) and in 2006 (proper). He died in 2009 on the age of 70

‘Final week I went by way of to a restaurant in Falkirk the place I used to be assembly my lawyer and my accountant. Once I walked within the supervisor got here working as much as me and requested me to attend for just a few moments.

‘When he got here again he requested if I used to be Tam Paton. I instructed him I used to be and he stated, ‘We do not need your form in right here. Please go away instantly and take away your car from the automobile park’. That’s the type of response I’ve been getting due to this.’ 

The next 12 months he was fined £200,000 after admitting to supplying hashish. 

He denied two prices of supplying the category A medicine cocaine and ecstasy. Paton was instructed in view of his age and poor well being he wouldn’t face jail however would incur a considerable monetary penalty as punishment.

Paton, who by no means married, survived two coronary heart assaults and a stroke earlier than dying of a suspected coronary heart assault in April 2009, on the age of 70.