Keir Starmer’s Jimmy Savile advisor’s report corrected ahead of publication

A report into the failure of the Attorney General’s Office to prosecute Jimmy Savile under Sir Keir Starmer has been amended with strongly worded criticism, newly released documents reveal.

The CPS has decided not to prosecute the artist over allegations of sexual assault, including against minors.

The draft report, written by Starmer’s adviser Alison Levitt, KC, was obtained as part of research for a three-part series by The Times on the Labour leader’s career as a lawyer. The final part focuses on his era as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from 2008 to 2013.

Sir Keir Starmer in 2010, when he was Director of Public Prosecutions. He said the Savile case ‘did not come across my desk’. The Levitt report did not ask who in the CPS knew about Savile

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Assessing the CPS’s decision to charge on 19 points, which informed the police that there would be no trial for Savile, Levitt’s draft report said it was “short, given that