Savile a suspect in 199 crimes, 31 rapes: police

December 13, 2012 00:25

Late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile is a suspect in 199 crimes, including 31 allegations of rape, police said today, adding that the scale of his alleged crimes was "unprecedented" in Britain. Ten weeks after Scotland Yard began investigating claims that Savile was a paedophile, the London force confirmed that 589 people had come forward with information, of which 450 related to Savile, mainly alleging sex abuse.

Some 80 per cent of the victims were children or young people, police said, while 82 per cent who claimed they had been abused were female. "These levels of reporting of sexual abuse against a single individual are unprecedented in the UK," Scotland Yard said in a statement.

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