Labour leader was unaware a prosecutor had closed case in 2009 despite being head of CPS, it has emerged

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 sex abuser in 2009, nearly a year after he took over as director of public prosecutions (DPP).

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