The scandal of how Sir Jimmy Savile was able to abuse young girls for decades deepened last night after a Sunday Telegraph investigation implicated former government ministers and executives at the BBC.

Edwina Currie appointed Savile to run a taskforce in charge of Broadmoor in the 1980s, where he is accused of sexually assaulting patients Photo: GEOFF PUGH
By Robert Mendick, and Laura Donnelly9:00PM BST 20 Oct 2012
The scandal of how Sir Jimmy Savile was able to abuse young girls for decades deepened last night after a Sunday Telegraph investigation implicated both former government ministers and executives at the BBC.
A series of institutional failings gave Savile access to victims and prevented his detection in his lifetime.
The revelations come as pressure intensifies over the current BBC management’s decision to drop a Newsnight investigation into Savile.
The BBC will go to war with itself tomorrow when Panorama, it flagship news programme, threatens to dismantle the corporation’s official reason for doing so.
The Sunday Telegraph understands a series of damaging emails show the BBC had set a transmission date for the Newsnight investigation, which would have exposed Savile in December last year. But in the days beforehand the programme’s editor ordered that more information was required, which according to one Newsnight source effectively killed off the investigation.


Edwina Jones (born 13 October 1946), born Edwina Cohen

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