Gov’t: BBC could face public inquiry over Savile

Published November 4, 2012 12:04pm ET



LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government could order a full public inquiry into the British Broadcasting Corp.’s handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, the country’s top media minister said Sunday.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller was quoted as telling The Sunday Telegraph newspaper that a formal investigation into the broadcaster could be launched, if its own internal inquiries don’t establish how the famed TV host’s behavior was allowed to go unchecked for decades.

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