11/01/2013 BBC News at One

More than 50 years of abuse by the presenter Jimmy Savile - a police

report reveals the extent of his shocking crimes. 214 cases have

been recorded many at the BBC, hospitals, a hospice and schools.

His youngest victim was just eight. A compelling case of a predatory

sex offender across the whole of the UK. It could be said he groomed

a nation. As the Crown Prosecution Service

admits, Jimmy Savile could have been prosecuted while he was alive.

Some victims say the police report has helped them. Just to be able to

finally be believed - it's not even telling the story. It's being

believed of. The other headlines this lunch

time: 800 jobs are to go at Honda's plant

in Swindon as the Japanese car maker says demand has slumped in

Europe. Two men appear in court charged

with the murder of a church organist attacked as he walked to

midnight mass on Christmas Eve. And unveiled - the first official

portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge. Kate says it's amazing.

Others aren't so sure. On BBC London: fire station under

thet - which will be closed to meet the Brigade's cuts.

The mayor admits reemploying his old advisor who stood down amid

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The presenter

Jimmy Savile was a prolific, predatory sex offender who carried

out abuse on an unprecedented scale for more than 50 years. Today the

police and the Crown Prosecution Service have revealed the extent of

his crimes and admitted that he could have been brought to justice

while he was still alive if his victims had been taken more

seriously. The BBC says it's "appalled" that Jimmy Savile preyed

on victims on its premises and has again apologised to those affected.

In total, police have recorded 214 crimes against him all over the UK.

They say his footprint was vast and he used his celebrity to "hide in

plain sight". A lot of the abuse was carried out at the BBC and 14

medical sites, including a hospice, even schools, with the first

allegation dating back to 1955, the most recent in 2009. The majority

of his victims were girls between the ages of 13 and 16, but his

youngest victim was a boy of just eight. Our correspondent David

Sillito is at New Scotland Yard. There have been 30 officers. It's

taken 14 weeks, and more than 600 people have come forward - 450

giving evidence about crimes committed by Jimmy Savile, but this

is a man they could never prosecute. What was this all about? The police

say it was simply a matter of giving the victims a voice.

Jimmy Savile, a predatory sexual offender der his first recorded

assault was in 1955, the last, 2009. Today's police report gives us the

clearest picture yet of his crimes. It's clear that their testimony

when taken together presents a compelling case of a predatory sex

offender across the whole of the UK. It could be said he groomed a

nation. He was hiding in plain sight, and yet none of us were able

to do anything about it. 40 years ago Deborah was a teenager, a

resident of the Duncroft Children's Home. She says she spoke up at the

time but nothing happened after her encounter with Jimmy Savile.

forced me down backwards and pushed - you know, his weight on top of

you and pushed his tongue into my mouth and down my throat, and you

just had to endure it. She's now one of 450 people who have in the

last 14 weeks approached the police about Jimmy Savile. 234 crimes, 14

rapes in studios, 13 hospitals, a hospice and schools across the

country. The youngest victim was just eight. And yet the world knew

nothing until a few months ago when women from Duncroft decided to

speak out. What they triggered was an avalanche - hundreds upon

hundreds have come forward with their stories about the dark side

of Jimmy Savile. This isn't justice, but at least they have been heard.

Of course, there were suspicions over the years. This Louis Thorough

documentary tackled the topic head This, is he, isn't he a

paedophile... Yes whether I am or not, nobody knows whether I am.

Complaints were made to police in 2007. Today Crown Prosecution

Service issued an apology for not bringing a prosecution. A review of

that case says they had been too cautious. There are also another 14

Saville-related inquiry, but what about justice? This has been an

investigation of a man who cannot be prosecuted.

Do you think this brings something to an end? Do you think this helps?

I hope so. It's helped me, and I'm sure it's helped a lot of others

too, just to be able to finally be believed. It's not even telling the

story. It's being believed. years on, there will be no

conviction. This is perhaps the closest we'll get to the truth

about Jimmy Savile. And in the last hour, the BBC has

issued a statement saying it's appalled that any of these offences

took place on BBC premises and restated their apology to the

victims and added that of course there is the ongoing Dame Janet

Smith review looking at the culture and practise of the BBC and how any

of these things could have happened. David, thank you very much.

Jimmy Savile used his charity fund- raising work to gain access to

vulnerable people at 14 medical sites including hospitals, mental

health units and even a hospice. Today the Department of Health said

the scale of abuse was shocking and lessons must be learnt from his

crimes. Here's Branwen Jeffreys. NHS hospitals which opened their

doors to Jimmy Savile - his celebrity status meant he was taken

at face value - a high-profile volunteer who raised considerable

sums of money. It's now clear how much opportunity for abuse that

created. Today's report says there were at

least 50 offences at medical premises in 13 separate NHS

hospitals and one hospice - at Stoke Mandeville Hospital where he

had an office and a flat there were 22 offences between 1965 and '88,

at Leeds, where he also had an office - 16 offences between 1965

and 1995. At every other hospital and the hospice, there was one

offence reported - opportunistic sexual abuse over three decades.

was able to use his iconic fame to get himself into situations where

there were vulnerable people, vulnerable children predominantly.

He was very good at it. He was abusing in TV studios where people

come and they were slightly in awe of his fame status. At Broadmoor,

Jimmy Savile was appointed by Ministers to a task force - four of

the hospitals where offences have been recorded were psychiatric

institutions, while most of his offending involved children,

vulnerable adults were also targets. In a statement today, the

Kate Lampard, a lawyer, is overseeing the NHS investigations.

The terms of reference were published in early December. While

many of the hospitals still exist, the offences stretch back to the

1960s. The report from the NHS inquiries are not expected until

late this year. Let's go live to two of the

hospitals where multiple offences have been recorded by the police -

Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire and Leeds General Infirmary. First,

Louise Hubball at Stoke Mandeville. Jimmy Savile was a very well-known

figure there and plenty of access to patients.

Absolutely, Sophie. Jimmy Savile was a major fundraiser here at

Stoke Mandeville Hospital, raising over �40 million to rebuild the

National Spinal Injuries Centre here, but today's report reveals

that behind that charitable facade he also committed 22 sexual

offences here between 1965 and 1988. The Crown Prosecution Service have

also said today that he could have faced prosecution for an assault on

a teenaged girl outside the hospital, but the victim was

treated with an unjustified degree of caution. People here are shocked

at the scale of the abuse, and Buckinghamshire Health Care NHS

Trust have issued a statement. They say last year the Trust set up an

independent investigation. It's a serious and complex inquiry, they

say, reviewing files and records from the last 40 years before it

moves on to meeting and hearing from witnesses. They expect that

report to be complete by the end of the year, and they are urging

anyone with any information to come forward and contact that

investigation team. And Stuart Flinders in Leeds, a

similar story there - a very well- known figure there and a very

frequent visitor. Yes, Jimmy Savile was very well known here at Leeds

General Infirmary and dare I say it a popular figure, first as a

volunteer, and later as an important fundraiser, and this

hospital has today released a statement saying it is carrying out

its own investigation. It expects to report towards the end of this

year, and it will be looking at not only information from the police

but also directly from his victims. 16 cases relate to this hospital,

another to the famous teaching hospital St James's, which is knee,

and another two - a psychiatric hospital which has since closed

down and one other allegation which has emerged for the first time

relating to a hospice here in Leeds and a statement from the hospital

reads that they are appalled and dismayed by the allegation which

relate to an incident back in 1977. Thank you both very much.

And we'll be talking to the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt at the end of

the programme. Right now our legal affairs expert

Clive Coleman is with me. Let's talk about the Crown Prosecution

Service, a very strong statement from them, an apology and this

admission that he could have been prosecuted if some of these victims

had been taken more seriously. you say, this is a really strong,

really powerful statement from Keir Starmer laced with I think a lot of

genuine regret because what it says is in 2009 the criminal justice

system in the form of senior police officer and Crown Prosecution

Service lawyers failed the few victims of Jimmy Savile who at that

stage had come forward, and of course, what that means is that the

now - the mass of victims - we now know the size of Jimmy Savile's

abusing - all of those victims have now been denied the chance to see

Jimmy Savile prosecuted in a criminal court. What happened is

that prosecutors and police simply didn't give enough credibility to

witnesses. They didn't think about building cases, and they didn't

critically in terms of the - the witnesses who had come forward -

they didn't tell them about the other allegations. That, these

witnesses said, would have given them the confidence to say, yes,

we'll go to court and give evidence. He died 18 months ago. As you say,

he'll never be brought to justice. What about these victims? That

chapter is now over. Their only redress now is to bring civil

claims. Civil claims are complicated. They can either sue

the estate of Jimmy Savile or seek to sue one of these organisations

with which he was associated and on whose premises it is said he abused

his victims. Either a complaint can be brought in negligence - that's

complicated because you have to show a duty of care that was

breached. You have to go back and show what the organisation knew,

what protective measure they took. Alternatively, something called

vicarious liability. That's almost a no-fault liability where you sue

the employer for the acts of the employee. It used to be a defence

if you say Jimmy Savile wasn't actually an employee. The law has

changed recently. The change has been driven by these historic

sexual abuse cases. Last year the Supreme Court broadened that out so

you don't now need to be an employee. You can now bring a claim

against an organisation if the relationship is akin to employment.

Thank you very much. You can see the full details of the

report and the background on all the investigations on the BBC News

website, bbc.co.uk/Savile. The rest of the news now, and the

Japanese carmaker Honda is cutting 800 jobs at its factory in Swindon.

The company says demand for its cars has fallen in Europe. Only

last September, Honda announced a major investment programme at

Swindon, but the expected increase in demand has failed to materialise.

Here's our industry correspondent John Moylan.

A grim start to the year for workers here at Honda's plants in

Swindon. Staff emerged shocked and concerned at the news that 800 jobs

will go by April. Just kicked the life out of everybody I think. You

know, everybody's disappointed, and worried scared straight away, so

yeah, a little bit devastated, to be honest. You know, that's all I

can say, really, so... It's a huge reversal of fortunes. Back in

September, the Business Secretary was at the plant welcoming news of

a �260 million investment, Honda's biggest in Britain in a decade. The

firm had also recruited 500 new staff, but it now says it's become

a victim of the eurozone crisis, which has caused car sales in

mainland Europe to plummet. We have to realign our business to the

market conditions. What are the market conditions? In Europe, one

million less cars were sold of all makes in 2012 over 2011. That

impacts on everybody's business. Last year Honda produced around

165,000 cars in Swindon - typically, 50% of those are exported to

mainland Europe, but sales there fell by around 7.6% last year

according to the latest figures. The UK auto industry has bounced

back from the downturn, but while high-end brands like Jaguar, Land

Rover and Bentley have fared well, some volume car makers have

struggled. At Honda now, there are concerns over the wider impact in

the area. One supply plant very close to Honda has already

announced to its workforce that in the region of 300 jobs will go, so

that won't be the end of it. I would anticipate that the

announcement today would have a devastating effect in the region to

three to 4,000 jobs going from the industry permanently. UK car

exports are thought to be at record levels, but with many of those

vehicles bound for the rest of Europe, that boom may be hard to

Our top story: A police report reveals more than

50 years of abuse by the presenter Jimmy Savile at the BBC, hospitals,

a hospice and schools - his youngest victim was just eight.

Coming up: The Duchess of Cambridge is thrilled, but one art critic

calls her first official portrait disappointing and ageing.

Later on BBC London: Is this the future for tube travel in the

capital? We are in par toys see driverless trains in action. And, a

glimpse of what's being called the best view in the city. 72 floors up.

Two men in their early 20s have appeared in court charged with the

murder of a church organist who was attacked as he walked to midnight

mass on Christmas Eve. Alan Greaves, who was 68, suffered severe head

injuries. The men were remanded in custody and will appear at

Sheffield Crown Court next Friday. Ed Thomas reports.

Alan Greaves' widow Maureen left court supported by her daughters

after seeing the men accused of murdering her husband for the first

time. Is your faith helping you deal with Alan's loss? Immensely.

And the support of the congregation? The support of the

congregation and the police have been outstanding and I just want to

praise the police for all they've done and the sensitively in which

they've dealt with the case. Thank you.

Alan Greaves was attacked on Christmas Eve. The 68-year-old was

walking to mass and died three days later. Police released this CCTV

footage after his death and last night charged two men with his

murder. The hearing inside the court only lasted for four minutes.

Inside, Ashley foster and Jonathan Boeing appeared before magistrates

wearing blue tracksuit pants and t- shirts and spoke only to confirm

their names, ages and addresses. Both were remanded in custody and

told they'll appear before Sheffield Crown Court next Friday.

Separately, two other men have been released on bail as police continue

to investigate Alan Greaves' death. American and Russian diplomats are

holding talks at the UN in Geneva on ways to end the conflict in

Syria. Russia and the US disagree over Washington's demands for

President Assad to step down. The UN estimates that nearly 60,000

people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011.

Here's our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge.

Snow blanketing the battlefields in northern Syria. An immediate

preoccupation here the the search for fuel, for bread, for basic

necessities. But no deterrents, say the rebels, to their efforts to

oust the regime. Even in these conditions, this rebel fighter says,

we will continue to fight Bashar al-Assad's soldiers and will reach

his Palace with help from Allah in defeating his tanks. In Geneva

unfreezing the diplomacy over Syria, the challenge once again. Today's

talks bringing together Russia's deputy foreign Minister, and the US

deputy Secretary of State. Their governments backing different sides

in the civil war. And the international immediate ater

Brahimi who this week questioned the length of President Assad's

rule. I think what people are saying is that family ruling for 40

years is a little bit too long. So the change has to be real.

Only last weekend the Syrian President made it clear he had no

plans to resign. His Government denounced Mr Brahimi as flagrantly

biased. There still seems to be little chance of progress towards a

political solution to the increasingly destructive Syria

conflict. Efforts likely to focus more on the elusive search for

common ground between President Assad's allies, the Russians, and

those supporting his opponents. Latest reports suggesting that this

air base in the north-west now taken by the rebels. Though this

amateur video is not fully verified. The base has been used by

helicopters bombing rebel-held areas and for supplying Government

forces. The diplomacy still far outpaced by events on the ground,

for now. British forces are to be issued

with a new pistol for the first time in more than 40 years. The

Ministry of Defence has a signed a �9 million contract to provide

soldiers, sailors and air-personnel with more than 25,000 new Glock

sidearms. They can be drawn and fired within about two seconds -

replacing the slower Browning pistol which has been in service

since 1967. Our Defence Correspondent Caroline Wyatt

reports. It looks like a weapon James Bond

might use but from now on this is the pistol that will be in the

hands of British servicemen and women around the world, as the

Brown something phased out after 45 years of service. This is the new

pistol that British forces will be getting. It's the Glock 17,

generation four and the MoD is buying 25,000 of these at a cost of

�9 million and amongst the first troops to get it will be those

serving out in Afghanistan on the frontline.

This pistol was tested by British arms experts and its ultimate users

for 18 months, in climb mats of minus -- climates of minus 40T

proved reliable and won out over six other kpet tofrs -- competitors.

We tested it over a rigorous period of time. We have put them through

probably one of the most rigorous testing regimes that any pistol

competition has gone through across the world. I think we are pretty

confident that we now have what we consider to be the best pistol that

we could find. Troops on operations in Afghanistan will still use

heavier weapons such as rifles as their main weapon. This will be

carried as a sidearm for personal protection. It's peace of mind. You

know to know wherever you are you have that backup system. You need

to know that your secondary, your partner has that backup as well, so

if anything happens you can draw that pistol and engage the enemy.

The Glock can be drawn and fired within around two seconds.

Commanders say the weapons have saved troops' lives in the past and

will continue to do so in the future.

The first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge has been

unveiled in London. The painting, by the award-winning artist Paul

Emsley, is said to depict her natural, not her official, persona.

It was unveiled by the Duchess herself who described it as amazing.

Prince William said it was absolutely beautiful. But the

public response has been a little more mixed. Our Royal correspondent

Nicholas Witchell reports. It was, we are told, Kate's wish to

be portrayed naturally. In other words, as the person that she is,

rather than in the role which will shape the rest of her life. And

this is the result, a portrait in oil, showing a smiling figure

looking straight out of the canvas. This morning, Kate arrived with

William at the National Portrait Gallery to view the picture. She

was shown it in private. She reportedly said it was amazing and

brilliant. As for William, well, he said what you would expect a loyal

husband to say, absolutely beautiful was evidently his opinion.

The picture is the result of six months' work by the artist Paul

Emsley. After just two sittings with the Duchess, he worked from

photographs to produce the painting. Initially, it was going to show an

unsmiling figure, but then the artist rethought it, to produce the

portrait which goes on public display today. There were times

when I thought it's not going to work. I must be honest. But,

eventually, persistence pays off and you get there in the end.

leading art critic, though, is less sure as to whether the portrait

works. There's something that doesn't quite match about the face.

The top seems to be be stern and you get to the mouth and there is

this attempt at some elusive half- smile. There is a mismatch. I have

to say almost the worst thing about it is when you get very, very close,

the Duchess looks older than she is. For Kate, approximately three

months pregnant now, with and her health seemingly restored, it's a

portrait that tries to capture a young woman entering Royal life.

Cricket, and England's first one- day international match against

India is set for a thrilling climax. The match is evenly poised in

Rajkot with India chasing a target of 326 runs. India are 218-4. Rob

Heath reports. Before Christmas England won a Test series in India

for the first time in 27 years. Success in these one-day matches

would be another shock for the faithful. England's recent 50 over

record in India reads played ten, lost ten. But they quickly set

about bucking another trend. Bell crafted a classy 85. After scoring

three centuries in the Test matches the Captain was sailing towards one

here before finally departing for England then lost their way

slightly. But late momentum was provided by Patel.

India are now without their little master in one-day cricket. Singh

made a quick 61 and the match is still in the balance.

Winning the Test series proved tough. One-day success could be

even tougher. Back now to our main story and the

police report into Jimmy Savile that's made clear the extent of his

crimes over more than half a century. More than 200 offences

have been recorded by police - 50 of them at medical sites across the

UK. I'm joined now by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Good

afternoon. Thank you for joining us. Hospitals, men mental health

institutions, even a hospice. It's observation ordinary when you see -

- extraordinary that he managed to get away with this for so long?

Good afternoon. I think the first thing I want to say is I feel utter

sense of shock that this could have happened over 41 years and that

someone who was a national treasure, a celebrity, trusted and loved by

so many people could have been able to do this over so many years and

my first priority is people who used the NHS today because I want

to know and it's very, very important that the investigations

that are happening uncover whether there was a problem with NHS

procedures which weren't what they should have been or whether

procedures were there but blind eyes were turned and that's a

critical question that we have to get to the bottom of. What are you

doing to do that, are you tracing former staff who may have worked

with him in years gone by because this dates back a long time, are

you contacting them and finding out what they knew? Absolutely. But you

will understand that it's an incredibly complex process. This

happened up to four decades ago. The result of that is that we

didn't have electronic records in those days. Very often we don't

know the name of the victim that's alleging things have happened and

so it's a - it's sometimes like a needle in a haystack. We will do

the work that's necessary. I know every NHS institution will do

absolutely everything that it takes because we want to be able to

reassure people using the NHS today. We want to know that we have the

right procedures in place. A lot has changed. We have CRB checks now,

we have local safeguarding children boards, as well. But we need to be

absolutely sure that this kind of thing can't happen again. I want to

make sure the NHS does everything possible to do that. Of course,

hospitals above all, are places where people really do have the

right to feel safe and and clearly they didn't. They weren't at times

and people seemed to be blinded by Jimmy Savile's celebrity and also

by his great charity work, his fundraising power. I think that's

what's so sickening about the whole thing. People in hospitals are the

most vulnerable people in society. The thought that this man was able

to do this for so long, and the other question that we really do

need to ask, apart from how we could be a society where this kind

of thing happens, is whether there were any blind eyes that were

turned by anyone, because Jimmy Savile obviously had a very

important role. He was key to the fundraising for many institutions.

We just need to know that people in authority really did react the way

they they should have reacted and if they didn't we need to know that

and learn lessons. Thank you. Time Could have scenes like this at the

weekend. It's turning colder for all of us and there is snow in the

forecast, as well. Today, it's quiet. We have sunshine for central

areas. More cloud and rain coming in from the south-west and cloudy

conditions down the eastern side. Showers in the north-east will turn

wintry over the hills tonight. In the south-west rain swinging up

here as the wind picks up later and the rain will turn heavy. At least

it keeps temperatures up. On the whole, the frost is going to be

patchy tonight. The fog, too. There will be a good deal of cloud around.

The really cold air is going to arrive this weekend. It starts to

feed in wintry showers from the North Sea. The complication on

Saturday is this area of low pressure dragging this rain in from

the south-west, as well. Tomorrow morning, it's rain across the

southern counties of England, soon clearing from the south-west.

Heavier rain pushing into Dorset and Hampshire. Maybe signs of snow

beginning to develop over the Brecon Beacons. Frost maybe here.

More cloud keeping temperatures up in Northern Ireland. A lot of sleet

and snow showers arriving in Scotland and north-east England.

Further south, rain for most of the day. Lighter further north into

Wales. That starts to turn to sleet and snow towards the latter part of

the afternoon. Further north, we keep cold and sunny weather. More

snow showers to come during Saturday night for parts of eastern

Scotland and northern England. We will see more sleet and snow

falling across southern parts of England and Wales. Then it gets

really cold. Not just cold, but very icy and that could be the

major problem across southern areas later in the night and into Sunday.

We are also going to continue to feed snow showers into eastern

England on Sunday. Those will become fewer. Much of England and

Wales, a dry and cold day with sunshine. Rain coming into Northern

Ireland and working into Scotland and will turn to sleet and snow.

It's Monday that we have the more significant snow into England and

Wales as that wetter weather pushes south, turning to sleet and snow

and arriving in the south-east and through the Midlands just in time

for the rush hour on Monday evening. Thank you very much.

Our top story: A police report reveals more than