‘Shocked’ Cameron wants Jimmy Savile to be probed
8 Oct 2012 12:42 AM GMT
A ‘shocked’ British prime minister David Cameron called on Sunday for allegations of sexual abuse against late Jimmy Savile, one of the biggest stars on British radio and television, to be fully probed.
Cameron said that the claims from a number of women which have emerged over recent weeks that they were abused by Savile as teenagers were ‘truly shocking’.
Five women alleged that Savile sexually assaulted them as teenagers in a documentary aired on Wednesday.
The allegations against Savile should be looked into by the BBC - which employed Savile at the time - and, if necessary, by the police, The Mirror quoted Cameron as saying. Cameron told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show: ‘I think it is pretty shocking, the allegations that we are reading. They need to be properly looked at, properly investigated. It seems to me it is very important that the organisation, the BBC, does that itself. But from what I have read - and that is just as a consumer of the media – truly shocking things have been said.’
Last week, the BBC’s new director general George Entwistle had urged BBC staff to ‘come forward’ and talk to police if they have any information about alleged sexual abuses by Savile.
Last week, in an email to staff, Entwistle said he was ‘appalled’ by the allegations made in an ITV documentary about the former presenter.
No complaints were received at the time of the alleged abuses, the BBC said. Meanwhile, the Scotland Yard is leading an ‘assessment’ of the allegations. Savile, a jocular host of children’s shows on British radio and television from the 1960s to the 1980s, died in October last year aged 84. AGENCIES
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Cameron said that the claims from a number of women which have emerged over recent weeks that they were abused by Savile as teenagers were ‘truly shocking’.
Five women alleged that Savile sexually assaulted them as teenagers in a documentary aired on Wednesday.
The allegations against Savile should be looked into by the BBC - which employed Savile at the time - and, if necessary, by the police, The Mirror quoted Cameron as saying. Cameron told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show: ‘I think it is pretty shocking, the allegations that we are reading. They need to be properly looked at, properly investigated. It seems to me it is very important that the organisation, the BBC, does that itself. But from what I have read - and that is just as a consumer of the media – truly shocking things have been said.’
Last week, the BBC’s new director general George Entwistle had urged BBC staff to ‘come forward’ and talk to police if they have any information about alleged sexual abuses by Savile.
Last week, in an email to staff, Entwistle said he was ‘appalled’ by the allegations made in an ITV documentary about the former presenter.
No complaints were received at the time of the alleged abuses, the BBC said. Meanwhile, the Scotland Yard is leading an ‘assessment’ of the allegations. Savile, a jocular host of children’s shows on British radio and television from the 1960s to the 1980s, died in October last year aged 84. AGENCIES
ANOTHER TWEET-ER
David Cameron has made his debut on Twitter in an effort to reach out to the public. In his first tweet, @David_Cameron wrote: ‘I’m starting Conference with this new Twitter feed about my role as Conservative Leader. I promise there won’t be ‘too many tweets...’
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