​In 2009, during Sir Keir Starmer’s tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to prosecute Jimmy Savile due to ”insufficient evidence”, enligt ​thetimes.com.

In 2012, following widespread revelations about Savile’s extensive history of abuse of minors, Starmer commissioned Alison Levitt QC to review the CPS’s handling of the 2009 allegations. Levitt’s report concluded that both prosecutors and police had been ”unjustifiably cautious” in their approach and that a prosecution might have been possible had they taken a different approach. Starmer publicly apologized for these shortcomings and implemented changes to improve the handling of sexual abuse cases. ​