An ex-hospital porter in Leeds has told the BBC that Jimmy Savile was regularly handed a key to a building there when he arrived with teenage girls.
Terry Pratt said Savile would arrive at Leeds General Infirmary in the early hours, take the girls to nurses' accommodation and leave before dawn.
Leeds General Infirmary has said it "continues to be shocked by each new allegation" it hears about.
Police are probing claims the late TV star abused about 300 young people.
The hospital also says it is helping police with their investigation.
Savile was well known at Leeds General Infirmary over many years as a volunteer and fundraiser.
But Mr Pratt says he became suspicious when the TV star began arriving in the middle of the night in the late 1980s with girls who seemed "star-struck" and were "not streetwise".
Mr Pratt says Savile would pay these late night visits several times a month, with different girls, asking for the key to the accommodation block. He would spend a few hours there and drop the key back about 5am, Mr Pratt added.
Savile - a TV presenter and DJ - died on 29 October 2011, aged 84.
Scotland Yard are following 400 lines of inquiry as part of the investigation into claims he abused 300 children and young people over a 40-year period.
A BBC inquiry into the culture and practices at the corporation in the era of alleged sexual abuse by Savile began on Monday.
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