The UK Department of Health has been dragged into the Jimmy Savile child-abuse scandal over its decision to appoint him to lead a "taskforce" at Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital – one of the publicly owned facilities where the celebrity allegedly carried out a series of sexual assaults.
The UK Department of Health has been dragged into the Jimmy Savile child-abuse scandal over its decision to appoint him to lead a \"taskforce\" at Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital – one of the publicly owned facilities where the celebrity allegedly carried out a series of sexual assaults.
Jimmy Savile was given an office, bedroom and set of keys at Broadmoor hospital
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By Martin Williams
The department will carry out an investigation into how the late DJ and broadcaster was appointed to the taskforce to reform patient care in a hospital which houses some of the country's most notorious criminals.
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