LONDON, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- A child sex abuse scandal of late BBC star Jimmy Savilecontinued to dominate major British papers over the weekend, after police said onThursday that they had identified more some 300 possible victims, many under the ageof 16 when the assault took place.
Savile, who died aged 84 in October last year, was one of Britain's top broadcastersand presented a string of programs that brought him into contact with children -- mostnotably Jim'll Fix It, in which he made the wishes of youngsters come true.
"It's now looking possible that Jimmy Savile was one the most prolific sex offenders theNSPCC has ever come across," a spokesman for the National Society for thePrevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said.
The chief police officer in charge of the investigation into Savile also said the policewere dealing with "alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale."
DISC JOCKEY AND TV PERSONALITY
Savile was a former miner who rose to fame and fortune on the fringes of the pop musicbusiness.
He entered the world of entertainment as a wrestler, and then became the manager ofa nightclub in his home city of Leeds, in the north of England.
When pop music and radio stations became a phenomenon in the 1960s, Savilebecame a disc jockey, first with Radio Luxembourg and then with the BBC.
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