A review into a police force’s contacts with Jimmy Savile has concluded that there is no evidence its officers protected him from arrest or prosecution.

Over 50 of Jimmy Savile’s sex abuse victims will seek compensation from the BBC, the NHS, the disgraced TV presenter’s estate and other organisations, their lawyer has said.

Jimmy Savile was “one of the UK’s most prolific known sexual predators” who abused children as young as eight across six decades, a chilling report concluded today.