Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal

most a year after his death, claims were widely publicised

that he had committed sexual abuse, his alleged victims
ranging from prepubescent girls and boys to adults. By
11 October 2012 allegations had been made to 13 British
police forces,[1] and this led to the setting-up of inquiries
into practices at the BBC and within the National Health
Service.
On 19 October 2012 the Metropolitan Police Service launched a formal criminal investigation, Operation
Yewtree, into historic allegations of child sexual abuse
by Savile and other people, some still living, over four
decades. It stated that it was pursuing over 400 lines of
inquiry, based on the claims of 200 witnesses, via 14 police forces across the UK. It described the alleged abuse
as being on an unprecedented scale, and the number of
potential victims as staggering.[2][3] By 19 December,
eight people had been questioned as part of the investigation. The Metropolitan Police stated that the total number
of alleged victims was 589, of whom 450 alleged abuse
by Savile.[4][5]
The report of the investigations undertaken jointly by the
police and the National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Giving Victims a Voice,
was published on 11 January 2013. It reported allegations covering a period of fty years, including 214
alleged acts by Savile which, though uncorroborated,
have been formally recorded as crimes, some involving
children as young as eight. The report states within
the recorded crimes there are 126 indecent acts and
34 rape/penetration oences.[6] Alleged oences took
place at 13 hospitals as well as on BBC premises, according to the report.[7][8] In October 2013 it was announced
that inquiries had been extended to other hospitals.[9] On
26 June 2014, the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy
Hunt, reported on the ndings of the investigations led by
Kate Lampard. He said that Savile had sexually assaulted
victims aged between ve and 75 in NHS hospitals, and
apologised to the victims.[10] Further investigations, in
hospitals and elsewhere, led to additional allegations of
sexual abuse by Savile.
Much of Saviles career involved working with children
and young people, including visiting schools and hospital wards. He spent 20 years presenting Top of the Pops
before a teenage audience, and an overlapping 20 years
presenting Jim'll Fix It, in which he helped the wishes of
viewers, mainly children, come true. During his lifetime,
two police investigations had looked into reports about
Savile, the earliest known being in 1958, but none had
led to charges; the reports had each concluded that there

Savile in July 2006, attending the Highland games in Lochaber

Sir Jimmy Savile (19262011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality, who was well known in
Britain for his eccentricities and, at the time of his death,
was generally respected for his charitable work. He was
knighted in 1990. In September and October 2012, al1

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was insucient evidence for any charges to be brought

related to sexual oences.[11][12][13] In October 2012 it
was announced that the Director of Public Prosecutions,
Keir Starmer, would investigate why proceedings against
Savile in 2009 were dropped.

the school had not been questioned about the allegations

at the time.[19] The former headmistress of the school
said she had been hoodwinked by Savile,[20] but described some of those who had brought the allegations
as delinquents.[21][22]

The scandal was a major factor leading to the establishment of the wider-ranging Independent Inquiry into Child
Sexual Abuse which was announced by the Home Secretary, Theresa May, in July 2014. In February 2015 the inquiry was recongured as a statutory inquiry to be chaired
by Justice Lowell Goddard.

In March 2008, Savile started legal proceedings against

The Sun newspaper which had linked him in several articles to child abuse at the Jersey childrens home Haut de
la Garenne.[23] Savile denied visiting Haut de la Garenne,
but admitted he had after a photograph was published
showing him at the home surrounded by children.[24] The
States of Jersey Police said an allegation of indecent assault by Savile at the home in the 1970s had been investigated in 2008, but there had been insucient evidence
to proceed.[25]

Background

Savile claimed the key to his success on Jim'll Fix It had

been that he disliked children, although he later admitted
to saying it to deect scrutiny of his life. He did not own 2 Journalism
a computer, as he did not want people to think he was
downloading child pornography.[14] In a 1990 interview
for The Independent on Sunday, Lynn Barber asked him 2.1 Aborted Newsnight report
about rumours that he liked little girls. Savile said:
Savile died on 29 October 2011 aged 84. At the time of
his death, and funeral in Leeds Cathedral, he was widely
"...the young girls in question don't gather
praised for his charity and voluntary activities as well as
round me because of me its because I know
his entertainment work.[26][27]
the people they love, the stars... I am of no
Immediately after Saviles death, Meirion Jones and Liz
interest to them.[15]
Mackean from the BBC programme Newsnight began
to investigate reports that he had sexually abused chilIn April 2000, he was the subject of an in-depth docdren. They interviewed one alleged victim on camera
umentary by Louis Theroux, in the When Louis Met...
and talked to a number of others who were willing to be
series. In it, Theroux asked about rumours he was a
quoted about alleged abuse at Duncroft Approved School
[16]
[17]
paedophile. Savile said:
near London, the BBC, and Stoke Mandeville hospital.
The headmistress of Duncroft was Meirion Joness own
"[We] live in a very funny world. And its
aunt, Margaret Jones.[28] The Newsnight team, which ineasier for me, as a single man, to say I don't
cluded former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas,
like children because that puts a lot of salaalso found out about the Surrey police investigation into
cious tabloid people o the hunt.... How do
Savile. The report was scheduled for broadcast on 7 Dethey know whether I am [a paedophile] or not?
cember 2011, but a decision was taken to cancel its transHow does anybody know whether I am? Nomission, which ultimately developed into a major crisis
body knows whether I am or not. I know I'm
for the BBC when the ITV documentary was screened in
not.
October 2012. The subsequent Pollard Review found that
Jones and MacKean assembled cogent evidence that SavBroadcaster and journalist Orla Barry, on the Irish ra- ile had a history of abusing young women and Newsnight
dio station Newstalk in 2007, asked him about allegations was in a position to break the story in 2011.[29] No menaired during the Theroux documentary. When asked tion of the dropped Newsnight report was made in public
about the paedophilia rumours, Savile responded, What at the time.
rumours?" In 2012, Barry expressed surprise that other In January and February 2012, several newspapers rejournalists had not pursued the matter, saying Maybe in ported that Newsnight had investigated allegations of sexthe UK they were slightly closer to him.[18]
ual abuse immediately after Saviles death but that the
In 2007, Savile was interviewed under caution by police
investigating an allegation of indecent assault at the nowclosed Duncroft Approved School for Girls near Staines
in the 1970s when he was a regular visitor. The Crown
Prosecution Service (CPS) advised there was insucient evidence to take any further action and no charges
were brought.[12] In 2012 it was reported that sta at

report had been shelved. An article by Miles Goslett in

The Oldie alleged a cover-up. The BBC showed two Savile tributes over the 2011 Christmas period, and it was
alleged that the Newsnight report had been dropped because its content would have compromised the showing
of the tributes. A joint submission to the Leveson Inquiry
from Anna van Heeswijk (Object), Jacqui Hunt (Equality

2.3

BBC comments and investigations

Now), Heather Harvey (Eaves) and Marai Larasi (End

Violence against Women) was titled "Just the Women", a
phrase which was reportedly written by Newsnight editor Peter Rippon in an email to a colleague concerning the lack of other authorities [than the alleged female
victims] for evidence of Saviles abuse.[30] A Newsnight
spokesman said, Any suggestion that a story was dropped
for anything other than editorial reasons is completely
untrue.[31]
In October 2013, the transcript of a Surrey Police interview with Savile in 2009 was published after a request
under the Freedom of information Act. Savile denied
the sexual abuse allegations relating to the Duncroft Approved School in the 1970s which were put to him by the
police, saying I've never, ever done anything wrong and
stating that the accusers wanted a few quid.[32][33]

2.2

Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile

An ITV documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy

Savile was broadcast on 3 October 2012. It was researched and presented by Mark Williams-Thomas, a police investigator in the successful prosecution of Jonathan
King over sexual oences involving children in 2001.
Several women interviewed said that, as teenagers, they
had been sexually abused by Savile. It was also said
Savile obtained access to teenage girls through television
programmes such as Top of the Pops and Clunk, Click
(197374), and his charity work. Saviles former colleagues said he made no attempt to hide his interest in
girls from them, while another said she had walked in on
him french kissing an underage girl. One woman who
said Savile had sexually assaulted her when she was 14 in
1970 explained she had not pursued her complaint to police in 2008 after being told it would lead to a "media
circus".[34] The founder of ChildLine, Esther Rantzen,
was shown the interviews by Williams-Thomas and commented that There were always rumours that he [Savile]
behaved very inappropriately sexually with children.[35]
An update to the original documentary, Exposure Update:
The Jimmy Savile Investigation, was shown on ITV on 21
November.[36] It won a Peabody Award in 2012.[37]

2.3

BBC comments and investigations

3
he had eetingly heard rumours about Savile, but described claims of a cover-up as ludicrous.[40] The BBC
said no evidence of allegations of misconduct or actual
misconduct by Savile had been found in its les[41] and
denied there had been a cover-up of his activities.[42][43]
On 8 October, the Director-General of the BBC, George
Entwistle, apologised for what had happened and said
further internal investigations would take place.[44] The
chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, said the investigation would be set up as soon as police enquiries
had been completed, and would be chaired by a gure
from outside the BBC.[45] As a result of the shelving of
the Newsnight investigation into Saviles activities (see
above), there were complaints on Newswatch. On 11 October 2012, the Director-General asked BBC Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie to look into sta concerns over
the dropping of the item.[46] He announced a review of
BBC policy on child protection, and an enquiry into its
culture and practices, focusing on the years Savile worked
there.[47][48]
The BBC was criticised in parliament for its handling
of the aair. Harriet Harman said the allegations cast
a stain on the corporation. Culture Secretary, Maria
Miller, said she was satised the BBC was taking the allegations very seriously, and dismissed calls for an independent inquiry. Labour leader Ed Miliband said an independent inquiry was the only way to ensure justice for those
involved.[49] George Entwistle oered to appear before
the parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport Committee
to explain the BBCs position and actions.[50]
On 16 October the BBC appointed heads of two inquiries
into events surrounding Savile. Former High Court judge
Dame Janet Smith, who led the inquiry into serial killer
Harold Shipman, was to review the culture and practices
of the BBC during the time Savile worked there,[51] and
Nick Pollard, a former Sky News executive, would look at
why a Newsnight investigation into Saviles activities was
dropped shortly before transmission.[51]
A Panorama investigation was broadcast on 22 October
2012.[52] George Entwistle declined to be interviewed,
citing legal advice that BBC senior management should
co-operate only with the police, the BBCs reviews and
Parliament.[53] On 21 October it was reported that the
producer responsible for the dropped Newsnight report,
Meirion Jones, had warned the programmes editor, Peter
Rippon, in December 2011 that the BBC risked being accused of a cover-up if the item was dropped.[54] On 22
October the BBC announced Rippon would step aside
from his role of editor with immediate eect.[55][56] On
the day after the Panorama broadcast, Entwistle appeared before the Parliamentary Culture, Media and
Sport Committee, at which he faced hostile questioning
and stated that it had been a catastrophic mistake to
cancel the Newsnight broadcast.[57]

Newspaper reports claimed Douglas Muggeridge, controller of Radio 1 in the early 1970s, was aware of allegations against Savile, and asked for a report in 1973.[38]
Derek Chinnery, controller of Radio 1 from 1978 to
1985, recalled an occasion when he confronted Savile,
saying I asked, 'whats all this, these rumours we hear
about you Jimmy?' And he said, 'thats all nonsense'.
Paul Gambaccini, who worked next door to Saviles oce
There was no reason to disbelieve.[39] Michael Grade
at BBC Radio 1 from 1973, said he was aware of rumours
told Channel 4 News that during his time at the BBC

of Savile being a necrophile and stated,[58]

The expression which I came to associate
with Saviles sex partners was ... the now politically incorrect 'under-age subnormals. He
targeted the institutionalised, the hospitalised
and this was known. Why did Jimmy Savile go to hospitals? Thats where the patients
were.
Gambaccini claimed that Savile bribed the police.[59] Sir
Roger Jones, former chairman of Children in Need, the
BBCs annual charity fundraising event to support disadvantaged children and young people, said Savile had been
barred from involvement because of rumours about an inappropriate interest in young girls. Savile had appeared
on the telethon in 1984, 1987 and 1989 before Jones became chairman.[60][61]
The report by Nick Pollard into the BBCs handling of
the aair was published on 19 December 2012. It concluded that the decision to drop the original Newsnight report on the allegations against Savile in December 2011
was awed, but that it had not been done to protect the
Savile tribute programmes. However, it criticised George
Entwistle for apparently failing to read emails warning
him of Saviles dark side,[62] and that, after the allegations against Savile eventually became public, the BBC
fell into a level of chaos and confusion [that] was even
greater than was apparent at the time.[63] The BBC announced that Newsnight editor Peter Rippon and deputy
editor Liz Gibbons would be replaced.[63] Transcripts
of evidence to the Pollard inquiry, together with emails
and other submissions, were published on 22 February
2013.[64][65]
Meirion Jones who rst broke the news was terminated
from the BBC in February 2015.[66] Liz Mackean, the reporter from the BBC programme Newsnight also involved
in the initial report, left the BBC in early 2013, and stated
When the Savile scandal broke, the BBC tried to smear
my reputation.[66] The editor of Panorama that aired the
investigation on Savile on 22 October 2012 is now in an
administrative position at BBC.[67] Clive Edwards, who
as commissioning editor for current aairs oversaw the
Panorama documentary, was decommissioned.[68]
2.3.1

Dame Janet Smith review

Main article: Dame Janet Smith Review

In November 2012, Dame Janet Smith called for evidence, from people who were the subject of inappropriate
sexual conduct by Savile on BBC premises, or on location for the BBC; people who knew of or suspected such
conduct; anyone who raised concerns about Saviles conduct within the BBC; people who worked for or with Savile on programmes at the BBC between about 1964 and

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2007, or who were familiar with the culture or practices of the BBC during that time insofar as they may
have been relevant to preventing or enabling the sexual
abuse of children, young people or teenagers"; and people who held senior positions at the BBC who may have
relevant information.[69][70] By 5 December 2012, the reviews team had been contacted by over 290 individuals, including many former or current BBC employees.[71]
In January 2014 it was claimed in The Observer that
Smiths review had concluded Savile had abused many
hundreds and potentially up to 1,000 people on BBC
premises, according to a source connected with the
investigation.[72] However, this Observer report was immediately denounced by the Dame Janet Smith Review
as speculative and unreliable.[73] As a consequence of
a request from the CPS and Lancashire Police, Smith did
not report in the summer of 2014 in case it should prejudice the second trial of ex-BBC presenter Stuart Hall.[74]
On 1 May 2015 it was announced that the review report
was nished, but it could not be published as it might prejudice ongoing police investigations.[75]
In January 2016, investigative news site Exaro leaked extracts of Smiths report. The extracts detailed numerous sex oences allegedly committed by Savile, all in
some way associated with the BBC, and concluded that
it was possible that a predatory child sex oender could
be lurking undiscovered even today, but stopped short
of criticizing the BBC for failing to uncover Saviles behavior. Smith responded by stating that the leaked draft
should never had been made public as it was out of date
and unreliable. Early that week, police conrmed they
were no longer concerned about the review prejudicing
ongoing investigations and the report was expected to be
released within six weeks.[76]
The review was published 25 February. The review,
which totaled more than 700 pages, found Savile had
sexually abused 72 people and had raped eight people,
including an eight-year-old, at virtually every one of
the BBC premises at which he worked. Smith stated
that some BBC sta members were aware of complaints
against Savile but did not pass the information to senior
management due to the culture of not complaining. She
described an atmosphere of fear still existing at the
BBC and that some of those interviewed for the inquiry
did so only after being assured their names would not be
published as they feared reprisal. A separate report into
the oending of Stuart Hall was released the same day.[77]
Earlier that day, the DJ Tony Blackburn, identied only
as 'A7' in the Exaro leaks, released a statement announcing that he had been sacked by the BBC. The report criticized the BBC for failing to properly investigate allegations made by a 15-year-old Top of the Pops audience
member, Claire McAlpine, who claimed Blackburn seduced her in 1971 and killed herself not long afterwards.
Blackburn, who denies the allegations, told the inquiry
that he was not asked about the allegations by light en-

5
tertainment head Bill Cotton and Sir Brian Neill QC in
1971 and 1972,[78] although memos from the time indicated that he had been.[79] He has accused the BBC of a
cover-up and that he intends to take legal action against
the corporation.[78]

New allegations

huge rings on his ngers.[89][90][91]

Singer Coleen Nolan said Savile invited her to a hotel
when she was 14 and had been involved in a TV recording at the Top of the Pops studio and that it made her
uncomfortable, But you didn't talk about those things
then.[92] Saviles great-niece Caroline Robinson said she
had been sexually abused by him twice at family gatherings. She believed some members of the family knew
about his abuse but had turned a blind eye to it.[93]

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said that he

was truly shocked by the published allegations, which
should be properly investigated.[94] The Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust stated that it was considering giving
funds to those working with victims of sexual abuse, and
that it may change its name because of the allegations;[94]
the trust later announced that it would close.[95] As part
Claims were made about Saviles activities in hospitals.
of the investigations, enquiries would be made into alIt was claimed that he sexually abused a 13-year-old palegations of abuse when Savile worked as a volunteer at
tient during a visit to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1971
Leeds General Inrmary.[96]
and an eight-year-old girl in the same hospital recovering from an operation.[82] Sta reported he searched the In October 2012, it was reported that the Sunday Mirror
wards for young patients to abuse, and they instructed had decided not to publish allegations of sexual abuse at a
patients in the childrens ward to feign sleep during his childrens home by two women against Savile. Paul Convisits.[83] A hospital spokesman said, though it was work- new, who was the newspapers editor when the women
ing with the police, it had no record of inappropriate be- came forward in 1994, described the allegations as credhaviour by Savile.[84] The BBC carried statements from a ible and convincing, but said that lawyers had advised
retired detective inspector of the local police force that a against publication.[97] In July 2013, Connew said that he
nurse at Stoke Mandeville hospital had reported Saviles believed that the newspaper would have lost a libel action
abuse of patients there to him in the 1970s and he had over the allegations, as the two women, who had been
repeatedly informed his superiors about this, but they did pupils at Duncroft Approved School, did not want to be
named. He also expressed concern that a jury would have
not believe him.[85]
been starstruck by Savile.[98]
A former nurse said she saw Savile molest a braindamaged patient at Leeds hospital, saying, He kissed In November 2014 the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
her, and I thought he was a visitor coming to see her, and announced that the enquiry had been widened, with the
he started rubbing his hands down her arms and then I number of NHS organisations investigating allegations of
don't know of a nice way to put it but he molested her.[86] abuse by Savile extended to 41.[99]
Following the broadcast of the ITV documentary, many
people came forward to make allegations about Saviles
conduct towards young people. Some abuse was said to
have taken place on BBC premises.[80] It was claimed that
Savile had abused at least one boy as well as numerous
girls.[81]

Savile was a volunteer at the adult high-security psychiatric Broadmoor Hospital, and in August 1988 was appointed to chair an interim task force overseeing the man- 4 Police and related
agement of the hospital, after its management board had
been suspended.[87] It is alleged that Savile had hospital
keys and access to patients rooms. In a separate alle- 4.1 Operation Yewtree
gation, a lawyer said a client had been abused by Savile
when he was a 10-year-old at the Haut de la Garenne chil- Main article: Operation Yewtree
drens home in Jersey.[88]
Julie Fernandez, who later appeared in BBC television
programmes Eldorado and The Oce, was invited to a
BBC studio to appear on Jim'll Fix It. She recalled her
experience in a radio interview: I was in my wheelchair,
but I just remember [Saviles] hands being everywhere
and just lingering those two, three, four seconds slightly
too long in places they shouldn't [...] It was in a busy
room full of people in a studio so it was quite discreetly
done and you don't kind of realise whats happening at
the time, especially when you're 14 and its the rst time
you've ever been in a studio and you're very excited. But
I do remember feeling uncomfortable and he had these

investigations

The Metropolitan Police Service stated on 4 October

2012 that its Child Abuse Investigation Command would
lead a process of assessing the allegations.[100] By 9 October the Metropolitan Police had formally recorded eight
allegations against Savile, but announced that it was following up 120 lines of inquiry, covering up to 25 alleged
victims of abuse, mainly girls aged between 13 and 16.
These covered a period spanning four decades, from 1959
until the 1980s, and were on a national scale. An inquiry process, known as Operation Yewtree, was set up
jointly with the National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), and involving other or-

6
ganisations including the BBC and ITV. Commander Peter Spindler, head of specialist crime investigations, said:
At this stage it is quite clear from what women are telling
us that Savile was a predatory sex oender.[101]
On 19 October 2012 the Metropolitan Police launched a
formal criminal investigation into historic allegations of
child sex abuse by Savile over four decades. It stated that
it was pursuing over 400 separate lines of inquiry based
on evidence of 200 witnesses via 14 police forces across
the UK. Commander Spindler said: We are dealing with
alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale. The prole of
this operation has empowered a staggering number of victims to come forward to report the sexual exploitation
which occurred during their childhood. John Cameron
of the NSPCC said that Savile was a well-organised
prolic sex oender, whos used his power, his authority, his inuence to procure children and oend against
them.[2][3]
On 25 October the police reported that the number of
possible victims was fast approaching 300.[102] It was
also reported that police were looking at allegations that
three doctors in hospitals with which Savile had been associated had been involved in the abuse of young people
in their care.[103]
By 19 December, eight people had been arrested for
questioning, and later bailed, as part of the inquiry.
These included former pop star Gary Glitter;[93][104][105]
comedian Freddie Starr;[106][107] former BBC producers Wilfred De'ath[108] and Ted Beston;[109] DJ Dave
Lee Travis;[110] publicist Max Cliord;[111] Rolf Harris;[112][113][114] and an unnamed man in his 60s.[115]
Travis stated that his arrest had been connected with matters not linked to children.[116] Cliord denied what he
termed the damaging and totally untrue allegations.[117]

4 POLICE AND RELATED INVESTIGATIONS

into allegations of sexual abuse made against Jimmy Savile under Operation Yewtree, by the Metropolitan Police
Service and the NSPCC was published under the logo of
the Crown Prosecution Service.[8] Among its conclusions
are that It is now clear that Savile was hiding in plain
sight and using his celebrity status and fundraising activity to gain uncontrolled access to vulnerable people across
six decades. For a variety of reasons the vast majority of
his victims did not feel they could speak out and its apparent that some of the small number who did had their
accounts dismissed by those in authority including parents and carers.[121]
The document was given wide publicity throughout the
media. Journalist Charles Moore wrote in The Daily Telegraph that he had read the whole report and it did not reveal the extent of abuse as the BBC website had stated in
the lead headline Jimmy Savile scandal: Report reveals
extent of abuse. He remarked that there was no evidence
in the report which a court would recognise. Instead it assumed that because uncorroborated allegations had been
made, the oences were committed, and, treating allegations as facts, it declared that 214 incidents had now been
formally recorded as crimes. Moore commented that
by doing so the report undermined justice.[122] Jonathan
Brown, writing in The Independent, said that the report
revealed a man who used his celebrity status and outwardly well-intended works to gain access to and ultimately rape and sexually exploit hundreds of vulnerable
young star-struck victims...[123]

In March 2013 Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary reported that 214 of the complaints that had been
made against Savile after his death would have been criminal oences if they had been reported at the time. Sixteen persons reported being raped by Savile under the age
of 16, and four of those were under the age of ten. ThirIn early 2013, comedian Jim Davidson and two unnamed teen others reported serious sexual abuse by Savile, inmen were arrested as part of the inquiry, bringing the cluding four under-ten-year-olds. Another ten reported
total to 11.[118] De'Ath was later told that he would not being raped by Savile while over the age of sixteen.[124]
face any charges, and said that the police action had been
overzealous.[119] In May 2013, it was reported that Ted DJ and friend of Savile Ray Teret was found guilty of
Beston would not face prosecution due to insucient seven rapes and 11 indecent assaults in December 2014;
while Teret was cleared of aiding and abetting Savile to
evidence.[120]
rape a 15-year-old girl, he was found guilty of raping the
On 12 December, Commander Peter Spindler said that same complainant.[125] An attorney for 169 of Saviles althe investigation had been completed and that the report leged victims stated that Terets guilty verdicts represent
of Operation Yewtree was being prepared for publication the closest the victims of Jimmy Savile will get to a conearly in 2013. He said that a total of 589 alleged victims viction against their attacker.[126]
of abuse had come forward in the inquiry, of whom 450
alleged abuse by Savile. Of the alleged victims, 82% were
female and 80% were children or young people. There 4.2 Crown Prosecution Service
were 31 allegations of rape by Savile, across seven police
force areas. Commander Spindler said: Saviles oendOn 24 October 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service said
ing peaked in the 70s and what we... will be showing...
the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, would
is how he used his position in society... to get his sexreview the services decisions not to prosecute Savile in
ual gratication.[5] The operation had involved 30 po2009, in relation to four claims against him for sexual
lice ocers, and its cost so far was estimated at about 2
abuse dating back to the 1970s.[127] The report, prepared
million.[4]
by the principal legal advisor to the DPP, Alison Levitt
On 11 January 2013, Giving Victims a Voice, a report QC, was published on 11 January 2013. It found that, if

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North Yorkshire Police report

police and prosecutors had taken a dierent approach towards the allegations, prosecutions could have been possible in relation to three of the claims.[128][129] Keir Starmer
apologised for the shortcomings of the CPS and criticised
two police forces for taking an unjustiably cautious
approach.[130]
In November 2013, shortly after he left the position of
Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer called for
mandatory reporting which would compel all professionals such as teachers, doctors and social workers to report
suspicions of child abuse or face legal consequences in
the light of the scandal.[131]

4.3

HMIC assessment of police investigations

The Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced on 6

November 2012 that Her Majestys Inspectorate of Constabulary would also carry out an assessment of all the investigations relating to Savile undertaken by police forces
across the country, examine whether allegations were
properly investigated, and identify any related issues.[132]

4.6 North Yorkshire Police report

On 18 December 2014, North Yorkshire Police published
a report of an internal inquiry into its actions. The inquiry, termed Operation Hibiscus, found no evidence of
misconduct by ocers, but also concluded that opportunities had been missed to prosecute both Savile and Peter
Jaconelli, a former mayor of Scarborough who died in
1999, for child sex abuse. The report stated that 32 allegations had been made against Jaconelli, and ve against
Savile. Jaconelli was stripped of civic honours earlier in
2014 after allegations against him were rst published.
The Assistant Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police, Paul Kennedy, said that the report showed that there
would have been sucient evidence for the Crown Prosecution Service to consider criminal charges against both
Savile and Jaconelli if they were still alive.[137]

4.7 Surrey Police report

On 29 April 2015, Surrey Police published a report stating that Savile had sexually assaulted 22 students and
a visitor at the Duncroft Approved School for Girls in
Staines-upon-Thames between 1974 and 1979. The report said that Savile had committed at least 46 oences at
On 12 March 2013, a report entitled Mistakes were the school, including one which would have been classed
made: HMICs review into allegations and intelligence as rape under current law.[138]
material concerning Jimmy Savile between 1964 and
2012 was published, which included material showing
that police had received intelligence about Saviles sexual
5 Department of Health investigaconduct dating back to 1963.[133]

tions

The Department of Health announced that former

barrister Kate Lampard would chair the departments investigations into Saviles activities at Stoke Mandeville
On 7 November 2012 it was announced that an inquiry Hospital, Leeds General Inrmary, Broadmoor Hospital
[139]
In Octowould also be undertaken, by a senior legal gure from and other hospitals and facilities in England.
ber
2013
the
Secretary
of
State
for
Health,
Jeremy
Hunt,
outside the island, into allegations that Savile had abused
[134]
announced
that
inquiries
had
been
extended
to
other,
unchildren at Haut de la Garenne in Jersey.
named, hospitals.[9] As at November 2013, the list of hospitals investigated included:[140]

4.4

Investigations in Jersey

4.5

West Yorkshire Police report

On 10 May 2013, West Yorkshire Police published a report into the relationship of the force with Savile. It concluded that he had not been protected from arrest or prosecution, but that there had been an over-reliance on personal friendships between Savile and some ocers. The
report states that there are currently 76 crimes involving
68 victims committed in the West Yorkshire area relating
to Savile, but none of them were reported to the police
before his death. Nine of the incidents relate to persons
under the age of nine, the youngest being aged ve.[135]
A copy of the report was to be passed to the Independent
Police Complaints Commission.[136]

1. Barnet General Hospital

2. Broadmoor Hospital
3. Booth Hall Childrens Hospital
4. Cardi Royal Inrmary
5. De La Pole Hospital
6. Dewsbury Hospital
7. Dryburn Hospital
8. Exeter Hospital
9. Great Ormond Street Hospital

5 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH INVESTIGATIONS

10. Hammersmith Hospital

11. High Royds Psychiatric Hospital

bodies of the deceased patients in the mortuary in this

way but that Savile did have unsupervised access to the
mortuary.[141][142]

12. Leavesden Secure Mental Hospital

13.
14.
15.
16.
17.

A separate report on Saviles activities at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, prepared by independent investigator Dr
Leeds General Inrmary
Androulla Johnstone and published on 26 February 2015,
found that he had sexually abused more than 50 people
Marsden Hospital
there, including sta, patients and visitors. One was an
Maudsley Hospital
8-year-old child. Savile had full access to all parts of
the hospital. The report stated that it was widely known
Moss Side Hospital (formerly part of Ashworth
at the hospital that Savile was a sex pest, and that 10
Hospital)
complaints had been made at the time, but no action was
taken.[143]
North Manchester General Hospital

18. Odstock Hospital

19. Pinderelds Hospital
20. Portsmouth Hospital

Also published on 26 February 2015 was Kate Lampards

report into lessons to be learned from the health services handling of the Savile scandal.[144] She concluded
that:[145]

21. Prestwich Psychiatric Hospital, Prestwich

22. Queen Marys Hospital, Carshalton
23. Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
24. Rampton Hospital
25. Royal Free Hospital, London
26. Royal Victoria Inrmary, Newcastle
27. Saxondale Hospital
28. Seacroft Hospital, Leeds
29. St Catherines Hospital Birkenhead
30. Stoke Mandeville Hospital
31. Whitby Memorial Hospital, Whitby
32. Wythenshawe Hospital

5.1

Findings

The results of the investigations were made public by

Hunt on 26 June 2014. The report concluded that Savile sexually assaulted victims in NHS hospitals over several decades. At Leeds General Inrmary, 60 people, including both sta and patients, stated that they had been
abused by Savile, with their ages ranging from 5 to 75.
It reported a number of organisational failures which had
allowed him to continue unchallenged. Hunt apologised
to the victims of the assaults, and said that the ndings
will shake our country to the core.[10]
It was reported that Savile had boasted to nurses and other
sta that he performed sex acts on the bodies of recently
deceased persons in the mortuary of Leeds General Hospital and claimed to have removed glass eyes from corpses
and made them into rings. The report says We have no
way of proving Saviles claims that he interfered with the

Savile was a highly unusual personality

whose lifestyle, behaviour and oending patterns were equally unusual. As a result of his
celebrity, his volunteering, and his fundraising he had exceptional access to a number
of NHS hospitals and took the opportunities
that that access gave him to abuse patients,
sta and others on a remarkable scale. Saviles celebrity and his roles as a volunteer and
fundraiser also gave him power and inuence
within NHS hospitals which meant that his behaviour, which was often evidently inappropriate, was not challenged as it should have been.
Saviles ability to continue to pursue his activities without eective challenge was aided
by fragmented hospital management arrangements; social attitudes of the times, including
reticence in reporting and accepting reports of
sexual harassment and abuse, and greater deference than today towards those in positions of
inuence and power; and less bold and intrusive
media reporting. While it might be tempting to
dismiss the Savile case as wholly exceptional,
a unique result of a perfect storm of circumstances, the evidence we have gathered indicates that there are many elements of the Savile story that could be repeated in future. There
is always a risk of the abuse, including sexual
abuse, of people in hospitals. There will always be people who seek to gain undue inuence and power within public institutions including in hospitals. And society and individuals continue to have a weakness for celebrities.
Hospital organisations need to be aware of the
risks posed by these matters and manage them
appropriately.

Department for Education

A report for the Department for Education reached no

rm conclusions over whether Savile had abused children
or sta when visiting schools and childrens homes, or
hosting shows at which they had been invited to attend,
between the 1960s and 1980s. The report, published on
26 February 2015, brought together the ndings of various investigations carried out by local authorities, charities and schools. The Childrens Minister, Edward Timpson, said that, though information had been received from
credible sources, there was insucient corroborating evSaviles ornate black granite and steel headstone stood for just
idence to draw rm conclusions.[146]

Call for single inquiry

19 days. It was unveiled on 20 September 2012 and, following

awareness of his abusive past, was removed, during the night
of 910 October 2012, at his familys request out of respect to
public opinion and others buried in and visiting the cemetery.

Main article: Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual

ute to Saviles burial place at Scarborough, scheduled for
Abuse
15:00 BST on 1 August 2013.[159][160] The University of
Bedfordshire stripped Savile of the honorary degree it
On 8 November 2012 the Shadow Home Secretary,
had awarded him in 2009.[161] Saviles name was removed
Yvette Cooper, called in Parliament for a single, overarfrom the Great North Run Hall of Fame.[162]
ching public inquiry to examine all recent allegations of
child abuse, including those relating to the North Wales On 23 October 2012 two registered charities, the Jimmy
child abuse scandal and those related to Savile.[147] This Savile Charitable Trust and the Jimmy Savile Stoke Manwas supported by former minister Tim Loughton and the deville Hospital Trust, set up to provide funds for the
relief of poverty and sickness and other charitable purNSPCC.[148]
poses benecial to the community, announced they
An overarching panel inquiry was announced by the
would close and have their funds redistributed to other
Home Secretary, Theresa May, in July 2014, to examcharities.[95]
ine how the countrys institutions had handled their duty
of care to protect children from sexual abuse.[149] It is It was reported on 28 October 2012 that Saviles cottage
to be led by an independent panel of experts, and was in Glen Coe had been spray-painted with slogans and the
to be chaired by Baroness Butler-Sloss. On 14 July it door damaged.[93][163] The cottage had been searched by
was announced that Baroness Butler-Sloss was standing police looking for evidence of others involved with him
down, and that a new chair would be appointed.[150] On 5 in abuse.[93] Plans to sell the cottage early in 2012 were
September it was announced that it would be chaired by halted by Saviles charitable trust, which had planned to
Fiona Woolf[151] but on 31 October 2014 she too resigned turn it into a respite centre for the disabled. These plans
from the role.[152] On 4 February 2015 May announced were in turn halted when the trust announced it would
that the inquiry would be chaired by Justice Lowell God- close.[163] The cottage was sold at auction on 30 May
dard, a New Zealand High Court judge, and would be 2013.[164][165]
given new powers as a statutory inquiry.[153]
On 2 November it was reported that letters had been sent
to Saviles estate, the BBC, Stoke Mandeville Hospital,
Broadmoor, and Leeds General Inrmary by solicitors
acting on behalf of 20 clients who claimed to have been
8 Aftermath
abused by Savile, and that legal action against them was
[166]
Saviles family asked out of respect to public opinion being considered.
that his gravestone be taken from the cemetery where his In November 2012 the BBC conrmed that it would no
body is buried. Scarborough Borough Council and fu- longer be airing further repeats of Top of the Pops on BBC
neral directors removed it under cover of night[154] and Four featuring Savile as a presenter.[167]
sent it to landll.[155][156]
On 20 January 2013 the BBC apologised after it screened
It was announced that Saviles inscription in the wall of an episode of Tweenies, recorded in 2001, which featured
Leeds Civic Hall would be removed in October 2012.[157] a character called Max presenting a parody of Top of The
like Savile, and also
A caf at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Jimmys, which Pops, dressed up and with a hairstyle
[168]
using
some
of
his
catchphrases.
displayed a neon sign in the shape of Saviles signature,
is to be renamed.[158] Cunard cancelled a sail-past trib- In June 2015 a stage play about Savile and the abuse

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scandal was premiered at The Park Theatre in London.

Titled An Audience with Jimmy Savile, it was written
by Jonathan Maitland and starred Alistair McGowan as
Savile.[169]

See also
BBC sexual abuse cases
BBC controversies
Criticism of the BBC
Institutional abuse
North Wales child abuse scandal
Elm Guest House child abuse scandal
Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations
2016 Jian Ghomeshi scandal at CBC (broadcaster)

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Further reading

Furedi, Frank (2013). Moral Crusades in an Age of

Mistrust. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781-137-33801-3. examines the sociological meaning of the sudden transformation of Jimmy Savile,
the cultural icon, into the personication of evil
Davies, Dan (2014). In Plain Sight:The Life and Lies
of Jimmy Savile. London: Quercus. ISBN 978-178206-743-6.

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External links
Investigations

Giving Victims a Voice, joint report by the

Metropolitan Police and NSPCC, published 11 January 2013
The Pollard Review: Report, published 18 December 2012
The Pollard Review: Appendices and Transcripts,
published 22 February 2013
Reports of the NHS investigations into Jimmy Savile, published 26 June 2014
website of The Dame Janet Smith Review

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