UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A former West Yorkshire policeman is being investigated by the police watchdog over claims he intervened on behalf of Jimmy Savile.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is looking into whether the ex-inspector inappropriately contacted Surrey Police before the force interviewed Savile in 2009.
Savile has been accused of abusing hundreds of victims during his career.
Victims’ groups have reacted with fury to the transcript of the interview.
It was conducted by officers probing claims Savile abused girls at Duncroft Children’s home in Staines in the 1970s.
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