By Sam Greenhill and Paul Revoir PUBLISHED: 19:43 EST, 19 December 2012 | UPDATED: 03:52 EST, 20 December 2012 BBC chiefs were alerted to Jimmy Savile’s ‘dark side’ months before it became public, it emerged yesterday. They learned ‘the real truth’ about the twisted entertainer more than two years ago – while he was still alive. Yet nothing was done, and shortly after his death, fulsome tribute programmes were aired and a Newsnight expose of his paedophile past was scrapped. A damning report yesterday revealed ‘chaos’ and a ‘critical lack of leadership’ at the heart of the BBC. But in spite of the scathing conclusions, no one will be sacked.
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Bosses ignored warnings about DJ's 'dark side'
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Newsnight editor forced to take blame to protect the director general
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Head of news censured - but she will be back at her desk today
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A culture of distrust and a ‘critical lack of leadership’ crippled the BBC’s response to the crisis.
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Former director general George Entwistle was incapable of getting a grip and made an ‘ethically dubious’ bid to shift the blame elsewhere.
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Newsnight failed to provide police with the evidence of Savile’s crimes – leading to accusations that it had ‘been sitting on evidence for several months’.
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The public were repeatedly misled as bosses failed to ‘get the truth’ about what happened.
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The Commons Public Accounts Committee yesterday attacked the BBC for a ‘cavalier’ use of public money over the £450,000 ‘golden handshake’ it gave to Mr Entwistle, and other executive pay-outs.
Investigative Journalism which worked on the report, tweeted: ‘If all goes well we’ve got a @placeholder out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile’.