Here is the BBC News: Jimmy Savile is still dead

THE Jimmy Savile scandal goes from the surreal to the ridiculous. When the story first broke, I joked that they’d have to dig up his body and put it on trial before some people would be satisfied.

Well, his headstone has since been smashed to pieces and sent to landfill. And now there are calls for his corpse to be disinterred and reburied in unconsecrated ground.

Dozens of women have come forward to claim they were abused by Savile over six decades. As I wrote here a couple of weeks ago: I believe them.

Clearly the BBC has serious questions to answer, as have those in charge of Broadmoor Hospital and the schools and children’s homes where Savile was allowed to prey on his victims.

We’re even hearing from women who claim they were fondled by disc jockey Dave Lee Travis, aka the Hairy Cornflake. What’s that got to do with the prix de poisson?

Scotland Yard is pursuing over 340 lines of inquiry into Jimmy Savile. The BBC has launched two separate inquiries and further formal investigations can be expected from the NHS and care authorities.

Everyone is trying to get in on the act. Soon-to-be retired Scotland Yard chief Sue Akers has reportedly told ‘friends’ that she would enjoy nothing better than to head up some kind of inquiry.

A Met source is quoted:

‘If they really wanted to get to the bottom of it, they’d put Sue in. She had plenty of experience of all that in her early days as a copper.’

Depends what you mean by ‘experience’. Akers was head of child protection in Islington when councilrun care homes were infiltrated by a gay paedophile ring. Even when the scandal was exposed, there were no interviews with any of the victims and no arrests were made.

Akers was also in charge of child protection in Haringey when ten-year- old Victoria Climbie was tortured and murdered under the noses of police and social services.

Most recently she has appeared before both the Leveson Inquiry and a Commons select committee, making serious allegations of corruption against journalists and public officials.

The Attorney General had to examine the transcript of one of her appearances for possible contempt of court. It was feared she could be poisoning any potential jury pool.

So perhaps she’s not the best person to head up an independent inquiry into the BBC or the NHS. Meanwhile, Jimmy Savile remains dead.