Former BBC chief Mark Thompson's office 'had TWO alerts about Savile child abuse claims'
• Mark Thompson's office was notified at least twice - once by a journalist and once again by ITV
• Mr Thompson was apparently not told of allegations on two occasions
• YouGov poll: 48 percent of respondents believe Thompson had not been honest about Savile affair
• Corporation is battling claims that its head of editorial standards, David Jordan, knowingly misled parliament last Tuesday
By Jill Reilly
PUBLISHED: 11:30 GMT, 28 October 2012 | UPDATED: 17:18 GMT, 28 October 2012
The office of former BBC director-general Mark Thompson was formally alerted twice about child abuse accusations concerning Jimmy Savile.
In May and again in September, his aides were told of allegations concerning the late television presenter's abuse of minors on BBC premises, but his spokesman has denied the claims were passed on to Mr Thompson.
The revelation by The Sunday Times raises questions about what Mr Thompson, who had overall responsibility for all news output as editor-in-chief until last month, knew about the Newsnight investigation.
Today the corporation is battling claims that its head of editorial standards, David Jordan, knowingly misled parliament last Tuesday.
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Oh, this downward spiral just keeps picking up more and more speed.
Now this, a convicted paedophile is arrested today on suspicion of being involved with Savile's child abuse.
Detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile child sex abuse scandal have arrested Gary Glitter on suspicion of sexual offences in the first of what is likely to be a series of swoops on suspected associates of the late DJ.
The glam rocker, who was a friend of Savile and appeared on his TV shows, was arrested at his London home early on Sunday morning by Scotland Yard officers working on Operation Yewtree, which is following about 400 lines of inquiry involving 300 victims of alleged sexual exploitation by Savile and others, mostly young girls but also a few boys.
Glitter was taken into custody at a London police station and held for more than nine hours before being bailed "until mid December pending further inquiries".
The arrest was made amid growing public anger about Savile's activities and a suspected cover-up by the BBC. Over the weekend the walls and windows of Savile's cottage in Glencoe, where he once entertained Prince Charles to a private supper, were daubed with "abusive slogans" according to a spokesman for the Northern Constabulary. "Jimmy the beast" and "Worst beast" were painted in black two-foot high letters on the side of the building in the Scottish highlands, which was searched last week by police searching for "any evidence of any others being involved in any offending with him".
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Can the BBC survive this? I read up on it and found even more interesting **** here:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/commen...andal.19262719
The sad thing about all of this is that none of it was a secret, people knew and they covered it up. People who should have protected children, protected a monster just to protect the squeaky-clean image of the broadcasting company. I hope they all get what's coming to them. >.>