Comments by "Caroline Collett" (@carolinecollett956) on "Sturgeon: PM should withdraw Savile comments if he 'had a single shred of decency'" video.

  1. Mr Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) when the decision not to prosecute Savile was made on the grounds of “insufficient evidence”. The allegations against Savile were dealt with by local police and a reviewing lawyer for the CPS. A later investigation criticised the actions of both the CPS and the police in their handling of the situation. It did not suggest that Mr Starmer was personally involved in the decisions made. The Labour party told us it could not comment on individual cases and the CPS said that records relating to the decision not to charge Savile were not kept, which the service said is in line with its data retention policy.
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  2. When the investigation report was published in January 2013, Mr Starmer said in a statement that he accepted the conclusions and hoped it would be a “watershed moment” for the CPS. He said: “I would like to take the opportunity to apologise for the shortcomings in the part played by the CPS in these cases. “These were errors of judgement by experienced and committed police officers and a prosecuting lawyer acting in good faith and attempting to apply the correct principles. That makes the findings of Ms Levitt’s report more profound and calls for a more robust response.”
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  3. Since the election of Sir Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour party earlier this year, there has been a lot of discussion online and in the media about the role Mr Starmer played in the Jimmy Savile scandal and the decision not to prosecute him in 2009. Our readers have asked us to look into this.
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  4. Ms Levitt said she had “reservations” about the prosecutor’s decision not to press charges. She said: “On the face of it, the allegations made were both serious and credible; the prosecutor should have recognised this and sought to “build” a prosecution.” She said the police treated the victims and the accounts they gave “with a degree of caution which was neither justified nor required”.
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  5. The review of the police investigation and CPS decision In January 2013, after Savile’s death and when his abuse had been revealed, an investigation into whether the CPS had been right not to charge Savile in 2009 was published by Alison Levitt QC. She was asked to investigate this by Mr Starmer.
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  6. They make the laws
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  7. https://youtu.be/HQiuF-mNtKY
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  8. The Scottish Freedom Party (SFP) has been described as the political wing of the SNLA. The SFP and John MacLean Society were formed in 1995 by former members and supporters of the SNLA. Both groups want to reverse English immigration into Scotland and promote Scottish Gaelic as the country's national language.
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  9. Mr Starmer was head of the CPS when the decision was made not to prosecute Savile but he was not the reviewing lawyer for the case. An official investigation commissioned later by Starmer criticised both prosecutors and police for their handling of the allegations.
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  10. Let Boris go
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  11. Defence Secretary warns of terror risk rise for independent Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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  12. THE UK Defence Secretary has said Scotland would be “definitely more vulnerable” to terrorism threats if it became independent as it would lose access to vital shared intelligence. Ben Wallace said independence would also make Scotland more open to Russian aggression if the Trident nuclear deterrent was removed from the Faslane base on the Clyde.
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  13. Boris won a majority of votes, like him or not most of the public do and he will win the next election and it is a risk to put in someone else who may not be liked
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  14. The investigation into Savile Mr Starmer was made Director of Public Prosecutions, head of the CPS, in 2008. The CPS is responsible for prosecuting crimes in England and Wales. As part of this it decides which cases should be prosecuted and what defendants should be charged with. It is independent of the police and government. In 2007 and 2008, Surrey Police investigated three complaints that Savile had “engaged in sexual behaviour with young girls”. During the same period, Sussex Police investigated a similar complaint involving a young woman. Savile was interviewed under caution by police in October 2009 and denied wrongdoing. He was not arrested. No prosecution was brought in relation to any of the four complaints, on the grounds that none of the victims were “prepared to support any police action”, for example testifying in court.
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  15. Boris nearly died from COVID . It was a close call and he has done his best under very difficult circumstances to protect the public and as for the parties both leaders attended , they put themselves at risk not the public and it was the risk they individually took to booze it up without the public knowing what they were discussing
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  16. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom and for membership of the European Union, with a platform based on civic nationalism. ... After Scotland voted against independence in the 2014 referendum, Salmond resigned and was succeeded by Sturgeon.
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