He spent 20 years from 1964 presenting Top of the Pops, aimed at a teenage audience, and an overlapping 20 years presenting Jim'll Fix It, in which he helped the wishes of viewers, mainly children, come true. A significant part of his career and public life involved working with children and young people, including visiting schools and hospital wards. Savile often came into contact with his victims through his creative projects for the BBC and his charitable work for the NHS. Further investigations, in hospitals and elsewhere, led to additional allegations of sexual abuse by Savile. He said that Savile had sexually assaulted victims aged between 5 and 75 in NHS hospitals, and Hunt apologised to the victims. On 26 June 2014, then- Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt reported on the findings of the investigations led by Kate Lampard. In October 2013, it was announced that inquiries had widened to other hospitals. The report states "within the recorded crimes there are 126 indecent acts and 34 rape/penetration offences." Alleged offences took place at thirteen hospitals as well as on BBC premises, according to the report. It reported allegations covering a period of 50 years, including 214 alleged acts by Savile which, though uncorroborated, have been formally recorded as crimes, some involving children as young as eight. ![]() The report of the investigations undertaken jointly by the police and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Giving Victims a Voice, was published on 11 January 2013. The Met stated that the total number of alleged victims was 589, of whom 450 alleged abuse by Savile. By 19 December, eight people had been questioned as part of the investigation. It described the alleged abuse as being "on an unprecedented scale" and the number of potential victims as "staggering". The Met stated that it was pursuing over 400 lines of inquiry, based on the claims of 200 witnesses, via fourteen police forces across the UK. On 19 October, London's Metropolitan Police (Met) launched a formal criminal investigation, Operation Yewtree, into historic allegations of child sexual abuse by Savile and other individuals, some still living, over four decades. By 11 October, allegations had been made against Savile to thirteen British police forces, which led to the setting-up of inquiries into practices within both the BBC and the National Health Service (NHS), both institutions that had worked closely with Savile. On 3 October 2012, an ITV documentary presented by investigative reporter Mark Williams-Thomas was broadcast in which several women said that, as teenagers, they had been sexually abused by Savile. He had been well known in the United Kingdom for his eccentric image and was generally respected for his charitable work, which associated him with the British monarchy and other individuals of personal power. It emerged in late 2012 that Jimmy Savile, an English media personality who had died the previous year, sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life, most of them children but some as old as 75, and most of them female. Savile at the Highland games in Lochaber on 29 July 2006
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