The past on trial: special report

The prime minister says he will take action to make sure “dreadful” abuse claims in relation to events at care homes in north Wales between 1974 and 1990, were not left “hanging in the air”.

A victim of abuse in a Welsh care home claims he was sexually assaulted by a former senior political figure. The unnamed accused man has spoken to Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick.

A rare transcript of a radio interview with Jimmy Savile, obtained by Channel 4 News, reveals startling insights into a man who planned escape methods and said “I could be corrupted”.

Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O’Brien looks at Jimmy Savile’s time as head of a taskforce at psychiatric hospital Broadmoor.

Questions were raised inside Broadmoor, the high-security psychiatric complex where staff laughed about Mr Savile’s psychopathic tendencies and where paedophiles gravitated toward him.

An inquiry into the “culture and practices” at the BBC during presenter Jimmy Savile’s campaign of sexual abuse is to begin today.

Describing it as a “watershed” in child abuse investigations, police say their inquiry into the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal is now dealing with around 300 alleged victims.

As the team investigating abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile is increased threefold, the officer in charge says seven separate allegations were investigated during the star’s lifetime.

West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison, who investigated the Hillsborough disaster for South Yorkshire police, has resigned amid claims he provided misleading information.

BBC Director-General George Entwistle tells MPs up to 10 “serious allegations” are being investigated and that the corporation’s previous practices seemed “to allow” Jimmy Savile to abuse young girls.

If George Entwistle’s select committee appearance shed light on anything, it was the convoluted layers of BBC management and blurred lines of editorial responsibility.

Why did so many individuals and institutions ignore the warnings about Jimmy Savile? Was it the tyranny of celebrity? Or an outdated, male-dominated culture that was happy to turn a blind eye?

From mental health institutions to children’s home, and covering a period of nearly 50 years, the investigation into Sir Jimmy Savile grows more complicated by the day. So what is alleged?

The attorney general is to pave the way for fresh inquests into the deaths of 96 football fans in the Hillsborough disaster by applying for previous coroners’ verdicts to be quashed.

Serving and retired police officers involved in the Hillsborough disaster are to be investigated by the IPCC in what will be the UK’s largest investigation into police conduct.