Edwina Currie voices regret as report reveals sexual predator's activities at 28 hospital trusts
The minister in charge when Jimmy Savile was appointed to work at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital said she was "shocked, surprised, startled, disgusted", as details of his catalogue of abuse within the NHS was exposed.
Edwina Currie said: "I wish we had never seen hide nor hair from him", 26 years after she rubber-stamped his appointment by a civil servant to a taskforce aimed at improving the high security hospital's governance.
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