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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

Keir Starmer was not told about dropping of Jimmy Savile case, say sources

Keir Starmer
Tory officials have been poring over Starmer’s record as a human rights lawyer and DPP for material to use against Labour. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

Keir Starmer was not informed when an investigator at the Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop a case against Jimmy Savile, sources have told the Guardian, despite the fact he led the institution at the time.

The Labour leader was unaware that a prosecutor had closed the case into the notorious child sexual abuser in 2009, nearly a year after he took over as director of public prosecutions (DPP).

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