[國際新聞] BBC boss Yentob and the Savile cover-up comment, making

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BBC boss Yentob and the Savile cover-up

BEEB boss Alan Yentob said the journalists who exposed the cover- up of the Jimmy Savile scandal were “traitors to the BBC”, one of them has sensationally claimed.

Respected former producer Meirion Jones claims the remark about him was made to another employee after he contributed to Panorama’s exposé “Savile — What The BBC Knew”.

Mr Yentob, 68, strongly denies making the comment. The film by Mr Jones and colleague Liz MacKean revealed the corporation’s bids to stop Newsnight exposing Savile as a predatory paedophile who struck on BBC premises.

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In an article for Spectator Life magazine, Mr Jones said: “A BBC colleague abused as a child wrote to Tony Hall [director general] to complain about the Savile affair.

“In his email he says he approached Yentob just after Panorama broadcast a film about whether or not there had been a cover-up at the BBC.

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“He claims that Yentob denounced us. ‘Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones are traitors to the BBC,’ Yentob told him.”

Last night a top Tory MP demanded an investigation into whether the allegation is true.

Philip Davies said that, if correct, the revelation makes Mr Yentob’s £330,000-a-year executive position “untenable”.

Creative Director Mr Yentob denies the allegations. A BBC spokesman said: “Alan says this is categorically not true.”