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Savile report: missed opportunities

Detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal are to publish their report later. The joint report, by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC, follows hundreds of allegations made against the disgraced TV presenter.

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Report reveals extent of abuse by Savile

The extraordinary extent of Jimmy Savile's double life as a predatory paedophile has been laid out in black and white today. His youngest victim was an 8 year old boy, he assaulted a teenager in a Yorkshire hospice and his abusing lasted 54 years.

The first report into his decades of abuse was made public with the senior Scotland Yard detective admitting that Savile conned millions and had in fact "groomed the nation".

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