Savile Nhs Scandal Grows

By David Leppard
The Sunday Times
October 13, 2013

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Jimmy Savile: new hospital victims have come forward

THE scope of the Jimmy Savile sex-abuse scandal has expanded with fresh evidence that the disgraced former BBC presenter abused children at more hospitals than was previously thought.

Tomorrow, the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will tell MPs that a report on inquiries into abuse on NHS premises will be delayed by new victims coming forward with additional hospitals. Hunt now oversees three separate inquiries into Savile’s sex offences at Stoke Mandeville, Leeds General and Broadmoor hospitals.

Until today it had been thought Savile had also committed offences at a further 10 hospitals (13 in total), but police have now been told he abused children and other patients at an even greater number.

Officials say reports on the three inquiries, which were due by the end of the year, will now take well into 2014. Growing information on the scale of Savile’s hospital assaults strongly suggests his offences against vulnerable children