Ex-Police Inspector Cleared Over Savile Call

A former West Yorkshire Police inspector who was alleged to have intervened on behalf of his friend Jimmy Savile in an inquiry into child sexual abuse has been cleared after a two-year investigation. Mick Starkey, who had acted as Savile's unofficial chauffeur and drove his gold Rolls Royce, has been told by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) that he has no case to answer over a phone call he made to Surrey Police in 2009 after detectives wrote to Savile requesting an interview