BBC Savile report 'will be published by the end of the month'

Predator: Jimmy Savile
Sebastian Mann15 February 2016

A long-awaited reported into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile is to be published by the end of the month.

The findings, which were passed to BBC chief Lord Hall on Monday, will be made public on February 25, a spokesman for the Dame Janet Smith Review said.

It comes after a version of the report leaked last month said another "predatory child abuser" could be lurking at the BBC.

The spokesman said arrangements for publication will be announced by the BBC.

The review focuses on the BBC's culture and practices during the years that Savile - and fellow disgraced presenter Stuart Hall - worked at the corporation.

It's A Knockout host Hall was jailed in 2013 after admitting indecently assaulting 13 girls - one as young as nine - between 1967 and 1985.

Former Top Of The Pops presenter Savile was found dead at his home in Leeds in October 2011, aged 84, after a suspected bout of pneumonia.

Almost exactly a year later, he became the subject of Operation Yewtree, a formal criminal investigation by the Metropolitan Police.

Additional reporting by PA

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