Draft
report produced during official review of DJ's time at BBC criticises
corporation for having managers who were 'above the law'
Dame
Janet Smith is reviewing the BBC's practices at the time of the Jimmy Savile
scandal Photo: Rex/Ross Parry
By Lucy
Clarke-Billings
10:09AM
GMT 21 Jan 2016
The
BBC is condemned for having a "deferential culture" and
"untouchable stars" in a leaked draft of a report into sexual abuse
by broadcaster Jimmy Savile.
The
draft report, produced during an official review of Savile's time at the BBC by
retired judge Dame Janet Smith, criticizes
the corporation for having managers who were "above
the law".
It
also warns that it was possible another "predatory child abuser could be
lurking undiscovered in the BBC even today".
"I know of at least two young girls [both underage] who
were invited back to Savile’s dressing room, where he abused them
sexually,"
Witness
Rapes,
indecent assaults on both boys and girls, and incidents of "inappropriate
sexual conduct" with teenagers over 16 were all "in some way
associated with the BBC", the draft report states. Three of Savile's
victims were only nine, it adds.
