http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9606494/Jimmy-Savile-police-officers-repeatedly-failed-sex-victims.html
Savile was investigated by police during a series of sex abuse inquiries spanning six decades – but each time he evaded justice.
Although what took place at the BBC and in the Newsnight programme meetings is, in itself an important question, it must not be allowed to take centre stage in this scandal. The fundamental point is that for many years, now suggested to have started in 1958, there has been a systematic and widespread concealment of the activities of this vile specimen of humanity. The cover up may have been in many cases inadvertent, in so far as people knew or suspected but said nothing. In other cases the conspiracy was undoubtedly constructed by those who knew and were actively involved in the abuse either by direct involvement or in facilitating situations for Savile's activities.
The BBC question is important and must be investigated of course, but the wider question which reaches into the NHS, the charity work, the Home Office etc etc, must be the priority for investigation.
Savile was investigated by police during a series of sex abuse inquiries spanning six decades – but each time he evaded justice.
Although what took place at the BBC and in the Newsnight programme meetings is, in itself an important question, it must not be allowed to take centre stage in this scandal. The fundamental point is that for many years, now suggested to have started in 1958, there has been a systematic and widespread concealment of the activities of this vile specimen of humanity. The cover up may have been in many cases inadvertent, in so far as people knew or suspected but said nothing. In other cases the conspiracy was undoubtedly constructed by those who knew and were actively involved in the abuse either by direct involvement or in facilitating situations for Savile's activities.
The BBC question is important and must be investigated of course, but the wider question which reaches into the NHS, the charity work, the Home Office etc etc, must be the priority for investigation.
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