· Day's events: Jimmy Savile report
Opportunities to prosecute Jimmy Savile for sex offences were missed because police and prosecutors did not take allegations seriously, says a report.
A review of the decision not to prosecute the TV presenter in 2009 has been published.
It comes on the same day as the Metropolitan Police and NPSCC outlined details of abuse Savile carried out over a period of 50 years.
Savile committed offences at 13 hospitals, including a Leeds hospice.
The former BBC presenter of Top Of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It, who also worked as a Radio 1 DJ and received a knighthood in 1990, died aged 84 in October 2011 - a year before the allegations emerged in an ITV documentary.
In May 2007 Surrey Police received an allegation that Savile had sexually assaulted a teenage girl at Duncroft Children's Home in the 1970s.
During a police investigation two more allegations emerged - one from a girl who had been at Duncroft and the other from a girl who claimed he had sexually assaulted her at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
In October 2009 Savile was interviewed under caution and said all three allegations were invented by the complainants, who he claimed were after money.
He threatened to take legal action against the police and mentioned that he had sued five newspapers in the past.
Alison Levitt QC, legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions (DPP), found in her report that prosecutions could have been possible "had the police and prosecutors taken a different approach".
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What Savile said to the police
"If this [these allegations] does not disappear then my policy will swing into action. I have an LLD, that's a Doctor of Laws, not an honorary one but a real one. That gives me friends. If I was going to sue anyone, we would not go to a local court, we would go to the Old Bailey 'cos my people can put time in the Old Bailey. So my legal people are ready and waiting.
"All we need is a name and an address and then the due process would start. I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. I have no need to chase girls, there are thousands of them on Top of the Pops. I have no need to take liberties......the newspapers consider me to be very boring, I have no kinky carryings on.
"But because I take everything seriously I've alerted my legal team that they may be doing business and if we do, you ladies [the two female officers] will finish up at the Old Bailey as well because we will be wanting you there as witnesses. But nobody ever seems to want to go that far."
'Watershed moment'
The DPP, Keir Starmer, said he wanted the case to be "a watershed moment".
Ms Levitt said there was nothing to suggest the three victims who made allegations against Savile had colluded or were unreliable.
She said the police and prosecutors treated their claims "with a degree of caution which was neither justified nor required".
Sussex Police received a complaint in March 2008 that Savile had sexually assaulted a woman in a caravan in Sussex in 1970.
This was passed on to Surrey Police, who consulted with the CPS about all four allegations but decided in October 2009 no prosecution could be brought because the victims would not support police action.
Ms Levitt found Surrey Police did not tell the victims other complaints had been made and the victims told Ms Levitt if they had known others people were making complaints they probably would have been prepared to give evidence in court.
Surrey Police assistant chief constable Jerry Kirkby said: "At the time, there was nothing to suggest the level of offending now being reported on a national scale."
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