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Jimmy Savile Sex Abuse Report:Throughout 50 years of BBC presenter Savile committed the offense harassment / UK News

Police have revealed the full extent of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile – saying his crimes spanning more than 50 years are thought to be unprecedented in the UK.

The late TV presenter’s youngest alleged victim was a boy aged eight. They included 28 children aged under 10, including ten boys.

A further 63 individuals were girls aged between 13 and 16 and nearly three quarters of his victims were under 18.

Some 214 criminal offences have been recorded across 28 police forces and 34 rapes have been recorded.

Police said the attacks took place over 54 years – the earliest in Manchester in 1955 – and in 14 locations, including hospitals and a hospice.

The joint report by the Metropolitan Police and NSPCC said he used his celebrity status to “hide in plain sight”.

Claims of his abuse peaked between 1966 and 1976 when he was aged between 40 and 50.

Some 450 people came forward to police about Savile.

Police said there was no clear evidence he was acting as part of a paedophile ring. Detectives continue to investigate whether he was part of an informal network.

Savile’s abuse “simply beggared belief”, the NSPCC said.

Scotland Yard, said: “The kind of things we’re beginning to learn from this report that are new will shock people even more.”

A separate report for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Savile could have been prosecuted for offences against three victims while he was alive had their allegations been taken more seriously.

That report pointed to shortcomings by prosecutors and police in Surrey and Sussex in relation to alleged attacks in the 1970s.

Two of the four victims concerned were as young as 14, one of whom said Savile had assaulted her outside Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

In 2009 a CPS lawyer reviewing the cases said that no prosecutions could have been brought because complainants were not “prepared to support any police action”.

But the CPS report out today said the cases had been treated with undue caution by police – and that had the individuals been told they were not alone in their allegations, a prosecution might have been possible in three cases.

The Director of Public Prosecutions said the case was a “watershed moment” and that new guidelines on prosecutions in child sex exploitation cases would be drawn up.

Criminologist Professor David Wilson told  News Savile was a narcissist whose fame and sense of “validation” by the Royal family, BBC and other institutions created a “perfect storm” in which he was able to abuse at every establishment he gained access to.

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