Investigations after Jimmy Savile scandal 'a witch hunt'

Eddy Shah has told BBC Radio 5Live that the police investigation into alleged abuse following the revelations about the former children's TV presenter Jimmy Savile has turned into a "witch hunt".

He said: "I think it's developing into that - it's easy policing and it's easy prosecutions. It's based on emotion most of it.

"It's going back to the witch hunt theory. I'd rather be dunked in water for two minutes and if I came out alive I was not guilty, and if I was dead I was guilty.

"In a civilised society there's got to be more checks and balances before these sort of accusations are used.

"It's great headlines in papers, it's great to talk about these things. And it's emotional stuff and the emotion always falls on the side of the person who is supposed to have been raped."