The allegations surrounding the hostage case in Cleveland, Ohio, remain truly astonishing; how can three women be kidnapped, raped and beaten for so long? One possible explanation derives from a psychiatric phenomenon which is supposed to develop in these extraordinary and intense predicaments, termed 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

Comedian Jim Davidson has been rebailed over alleged sex offences by police investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal. Davidson, 59, was bailed to an ...

A review into a police force's contacts with Jimmy Savile has concluded that there is no evidence its officers protected him from arrest or prosecutio...

A 65-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating allegations that emerged after the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal. The man was held in ...

An 82-year-old man from Berkshire has been arrested on suspicion of sexual offences as part of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation, the Metropoli...

A former BBC producer will not face charges after being arrested by detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal. At the time of his arr...

Comedian Jim Davidson has been rearrested over fresh allegations of sexual offences, it has emerged. The 59-year-old answered bail on Wednesday aft...

The belief that "children should be seen and not heard" may have led to earlier generations of youngsters being ignored when they claimed they were se...

Police files on celebrities and politicians accused of sex assault were so heavily protected that officers investigating claims could not access them,...

Dave Lee Travis has insisted his "conscience is clear" and denied any wrongdoing following his re-arrest over further allegations of sexual assault. ...

DJ Dave Lee Travis has been re-arrested over further allegations of sexual offences. The 67-year-old was originally arrested by Operation Yewtree d...

Police inspectors have warned there was a "distinct possibility" that officers could fail to prevent another Jimmy Savile-like scandal as it emerged t...

Police restricted access to intelligence that could have exposed Jimmy Savile's sex crimes because it involved celebrity, blackmail and paedophilia, a...

Jon Snow has described how the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal has forced him to confront a time when he himself was abused as a six-y...

The former editor of Newsnight boasted of the BBC's "higher standards" compared to rival ITV in the midst of the Jimmy Savile furore, emails reveal. ...

Jeremy Paxman’s lack of knowledge about departments central to the BBC’s editorial output has been revealed in the transcript of his interview as ...

Thousands of pages of evidence gathered during an inquiry into Newsnight's decision to drop its Jimmy Savile investigation are set to published today,...

Thirty-one victims of alleged sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile are to sue the BBC and the estate of the late DJ and 'Jim'll Fix It' presenter. A solic...

If this 48 year old renowned and successful violinist supposedly found cross-examination too much - how are younger children supposed to cope? If perpetrators are to be prevented from getting away with such crimes for such extended periods, we need a legal system that offers children a fair chance in court.

There are many different possible reasons why British celebrity Jimmy Savile was never caught over his half-century long sexual predator rampage. One was his psychopathic-like super-sense of being able to sniff-out the most psychologically vulnerable who would either not tell or not be believed.

A woman who claims she was abused by Jimmy Savile told police that she was molested by the DJ in his caravan, but was told by police at the time that ...

Operation Yewtree represents an opportunity to transform forever the legal landscape so never again can a marauder such as this escape detection. What needs to change is an awareness that sexual abuse can be going on right under our noses without us realising.

Jimmy Savile could have been prosecuted whilst he was still alive had police taken the testimony of his sex abuse victims more seriously. The disgr...

Children as young as 10 were victims of DJ Jimmy Savile, who may have raped more than 30 youngsters over four decades, a police report is expected to ...

DJ Dave Lee Travis has been bailed again by police investigating the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. The former Radio One presenter denied groping ...