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Jimmy Savile scandal: Police to publish inquiry report Jimmy Savile scandal: Report reveals extent of abuse
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The scale of sexual offending carried out by Jimmy Savile will be set out later in a joint report by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC. Children as young as eight were abused by Jimmy Savile, a report detailing 50 years of allegations has revealed.
Revelations that Savile had sexually abused girls prompted hundreds of other victims to come forward. The joint Metropolitan Police and NSPCC report added Wheatfields Hospice in Leeds to the list of places where the former TV presenter abused children.
These included those who said they were attacked on BBC premises. Some 214 crimes were recorded across 28 police force areas, including 34 of rape or penetration, the report said.
The report is expected to reveal that Savile's abuse extended to many hospitals, and that he allegedly assaulted someone at a hospice. Police said it was a "compelling picture of widespread sexual abuse by a predatory sex offender".
The television presenter died at the age of 84 in October 2011, a year before allegations emerged in an ITV documentary. The Department of Health said the report showed the need to "learn lessons from his crimes".
Revelations that Savile had sexually abused children prompted hundreds of other victims to come forward, including those who said they were attacked on BBC premises.
The former BBC presenter and Radio 1 DJ died aged 84 in October 2011, a year before the allegations emerged in an ITV documentary.
Historical abuseHistorical abuse
Friday's report, called Giving Victims a Voice, will set out what Scotland Yard and the NSPCC have discovered about Jimmy Savile since they launched the inquiry - Operation Yewtree - three months ago. Friday's report, href="http://www.nspcc.org.uk/news-and-views/our-news/child-protection-news/13-01-11-yewtree-report/yewtree-report-pdf_wdf93652.pdf" >Giving Victims a Voice, set out what Scotland Yard and the NSPCC have discovered about Savile since they launched the inquiry - Operation Yewtree - three months ago.
By mid-December, police had recorded almost 200 allegations against him including 31 rapes, following information from 450 victims. The 30-page document expanded on allegations that Savile was a prolific sex offender whose abuse took place at a number of institutions identified by victims.
The detective leading the investigation has described Savile, whose crimes are thought to span 50 years, as a "predatory sex offender". Its findings included:
The report is expected to show that Savile carried out a large number of sexual assaults on BBC premises, including Television Centre in west London where the children's programme Jim'll Fix It was recorded.
  • Savile offended at 13 hospitals, including Great Ormond Street in London, and one offence was recorded at Wheatfields Hospice in Leeds in 1977
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  • His youngest victim was an eight-year-old boy, and the oldest was 47
  • The earliest allegation is from 1955 in Manchester and the last in 2009
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  • Offences were carried out at the BBC between 1965 and 2006 - including at the last Top of the Pops recording
  • Peak offending took place between 1966 and 1976
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  • Some 73% of victims were under 18
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  • Most of those abused were aged 13 to 16
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  • There is "no clear evidence" he operated in paedophile ring, although "whether he was part of an informal network" is still being investigated
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About a dozen hospitals are believed to have been identified by victims as locations where abuse was carried out, and at least one allegation has been made that Savile sexually assaulted someone in a hospice. The report also revealed 16 offences were committed at Leeds General Infirmary between 1965-1995 and 22 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital between 1965-88.
The Crown Prosecution Service will also publish a review of a decision in 2009 not to charge Savile with sexual offences after investigations by police in Surrey and Sussex. And one offence was committed at Broadmoor high-security psychiatric prison, St James Leeds Hospital, High Royds Psychiatric Hospital, Dewsbury Hospital, Wycombe General, Great Ormond Street in 1971, Ashworth Hospital, Exeter Hospital, Portsmouth Royal Hospital, St Catherine's Birkenhead, and Saxondale Mental Health.
The Crown Prosecution Service also published a review of a decision in 2009 not to charge Savile with sexual offences in relation to four complaints made to police in Surrey and Sussex.
It found there was "nothing to suggest" the decisions were "consciously influenced by any improper motive on the part of either the police or prosecutors".
However, it said further action might have been possible had "police and prosecutors taken a different approach", adding the CPS prosecutor "did not probe... or seek to build a prosecution".
If those coming forward had "been told that she was not the only woman to have complained, they would probably have been prepared to give evidence".
Director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer apologised on behalf of the CPS. He said the report represented a "watershed moment" and pledged to enhance information sharing and provide prosecutors with additional training for the future.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "This report highlights the shocking scale of offending by Jimmy Savile over five decades and shows the need to learn lessons from his crimes.
"When these allegations first came to light the department and relevant trusts started work to investigate these issues, and we expect any new NHS organisations named today to do the same.
"Findings from all trust investigations will feed into the report Kate Lampard will write for the secretary of state on any lessons for the whole system in relation to safeguarding and access."
'Cathartic process''Cathartic process'
Liz Dux, from Slater and Gordon Solicitors, who is representing many of the victims, said the police inquiry would bring them justice. Liz Dux, from Slater and Gordon Solicitors, who is representing many of the victims, said the police inquiry had given them "validity" as many had been able to give their statement for the first time, and had "been believed".
She said: "Operation Yewtree has given them validity. For many of them they have been able to give their statement for the first time in circumstances where they have been dealt with sensitively and they have been believed.
"This has been a very cathartic process for them. Now that the report is out they hope that they can move on to the inquiries, hope that the inquiries are dealt with as swiftly as possible, and that the civil claims will be concluded and that they can get on with the rest of their lives.""This has been a very cathartic process for them. Now that the report is out they hope that they can move on to the inquiries, hope that the inquiries are dealt with as swiftly as possible, and that the civil claims will be concluded and that they can get on with the rest of their lives."
The allegations prompted a series of investigations, including three at the BBC and another by the Department of Health into his role at Broadmoor hospital.The allegations prompted a series of investigations, including three at the BBC and another by the Department of Health into his role at Broadmoor hospital.
A report by former Sky News chief Nick Pollard into the the dropping of a BBC Newsnight investigation into Savile said the decision was "flawed" and plunged the corporation into "chaos and confusion".A report by former Sky News chief Nick Pollard into the the dropping of a BBC Newsnight investigation into Savile said the decision was "flawed" and plunged the corporation into "chaos and confusion".
Operation Yewtree has three strands - claims against Savile, claims against Savile and others, and claims against others.Operation Yewtree has three strands - claims against Savile, claims against Savile and others, and claims against others.
One victim, Deborah Cogger, was abused by Savile when she was aged 14 at Duncroft, an approved school for girls in Staines, Surrey, in 1974.One victim, Deborah Cogger, was abused by Savile when she was aged 14 at Duncroft, an approved school for girls in Staines, Surrey, in 1974.
She said she hoped publication of the police report would help to bring things to an end. She said the publication of the report had helped her: "Just to be able to finally be believed - it's not even telling the story - it's being believed.
"It's helped me and I'm sure it's helped a lot of others too," she said. "I think it's given a lot of people closure, not just the Savile case, abuse in general. Now it's being spoken about, it's been brought to the fore, and for a lot of historical cases it's helped a lot of people."
"Just to be able to finally be believed - it's not even telling the story - it's being believed.
"I think it's given a lot of people closure, not just the Savile case, abuse in general. Now it's being spoken about, it's been brought to the fore, and for a lot of historical cases it's helped a lot of people. "
Speaking to BBC News, Childline founder Esther Rantzen said: "What worries me is, did various organisations - be they hospitals, or the BBC, or other broadcasters - turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear, in order to protect their product, which was Jimmy Savile the broadcaster?"Speaking to BBC News, Childline founder Esther Rantzen said: "What worries me is, did various organisations - be they hospitals, or the BBC, or other broadcasters - turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear, in order to protect their product, which was Jimmy Savile the broadcaster?"
She added the "positive news" coming out of the scandal was that the "NSPCC helpline has had a vast increase in calls from adults who are worried about children who may be suffering today".
Savile was a BBC Radio 1 DJ as well as a presenter of Top Of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It on the BBC, and was knighted in 1990.Savile was a BBC Radio 1 DJ as well as a presenter of Top Of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It on the BBC, and was knighted in 1990.