UNITED KINGDOM
The New York Times
By ALAN COWELL
Published: October 26, 2012
LONDON — As sexual abuse accusations multiplied against Jimmy Savile, one of Britain’s best-known television hosts before his death last year, attention turned on Friday to clues of any misconduct that had been ignored, overlooked or brushed aside while he was alive.
One of the most recent episodes to come to light, the police said, involved a retired officer who revealed that he investigated an accusation that Mr. Savile had attacked a woman in his trailer at the British Broadcasting Corporation studios in the 1980s.
The case could not be pursued for lack of evidence, the officer is reported to have said, and the police said they were looking for the case file. But it joined others in a tally of seven complaints against Mr. Savile that the police had investigated and then dropped.
The complaints are bound to deepen questions about why senior managers at the BBC, Mr. Savile’s employer for decades, failed to take such indications into account when, last December, they prepared Christmas season tributes to him two months after he died at 84.
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