Shocking inquiry reveals how 'serious failings' at the BBC let 'untouchable' Jimmy Savile target 72 victims as young as eight - while Stuart Hall abused 21

The BBC must undergo 'self-examination' to ensure Jimmy Savile's 'terrible' reign of abuse - molesting 72 victims as young as eight - is never repeated, an official inquiry concluded today. Dame
Janet Smith (pictured left today) said the corporation's failure to stop the Jim'll Fix It star was not the fault of senior managers. Her long-awaited review found there was a culture of 'reverence and fear' towards celebrities at the corporation and that 'an atmosphere of fear still exists today in the BBC'. When a junior female employee at Television Centre complained to her supervisor that she had been sexually assaulted by Savile, she was told 'keep your mouth shut, he is a VIP', the report found. A parallel inquiry also published today into jailed It's A Knockout presenter Stuart Hall (right) found BBC managers were aware - or should have been - that he was abusing girls.