POLICE have been asked to investigate allegations that boys were procured for paedophile TV presenter Jimmy Savile in the North-East.

The manager of a hospital radio station was told that boys were found for the disgraced disc jockey “to help him relax” on his frequent visits, a report has revealed.

Investigators found no evidence that children were procured for Savile at the hospital concerned – Dryburn, in Durham City, since replaced by the University Hospital of North Durham.

But they say a wider investigation is “beyond the remit” of their inquiry and have passed the allegations “to Northumbria Police for their evaluation”.

Detectives must decide whether to interview someone referred to as ‘person x’ who made the claims about Savile – and a specific location where abuse may have taken place - about 20 years ago.

They are revealed in one of 28 reports released today (Thursday, June 28), which found Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to 75 over decades of unrestricted access to hospitals.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust probed information about Dryburn, after a former fire officer remembered a conversation with the hospital radio manager in the mid-1990s.

The manager, Yvonne Staley, of Belmont, said someone referred to only as ‘person X’ had told her Savile was “vicious” and, on regular visits to the North-East, would get someone to “procure young boys for him”.

The report reads: “She had the impression that any such procurement had taken place at a specific location and involved a third party unrelated to Dryburn Hospital.”

Because the Trust found no evidence of procurement at Dryburn, it states that: “We have chosen not to disclose details of the location or third party.”

However, it adds: “The allegations reported by Mrs Staley raise the question of whether or not any such procurement took place elsewhere in the North-East.

“Tracking down and interviewing person x was beyond the remit of this investigation, which was focused only on the question of any possible connection to Dryburn Hospital.

“Person x has not therefore been traced and interviewed and, accordingly, has not had the opportunity to comment on Mrs Staley’s statements.”

The inquiry examined whether Peter Hetherington, a North-East disc jockey jailed for sex offences against children in 1996, did the procuring for Savile.

Malcom Scott, the former NHS fire officer who spoke with Mrs Staley in the mid-1990s, believed she had said Hetherington – who died last year - was the person concerned.

However, Mrs Staley said the allegation did not relate to him and Northumbria Police found no link to either Savile or Dryburn Hospital.

The Trust also looked into a 1981 visit by Savile to the children’s ward at Shotley Bridge Hospital, in Consett, to collect money raised for Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

A retired nurse told investigators that Savile asked about her marital status, and that of her colleagues, remarked they were “all taken” and kissed her on the lips.

But, the report reads: “The staff nurse involved made clear in her interview that she did not feel intimidated and regarded the conversation and the kiss as ‘friendly’.

“None of the witnesses recalls seeing anything which they considered untoward or inappropriate on the part of Jimmy Savile towards the children on the ward.”

A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: “Inquiries have been carried out and it was found there were no links to any premises in the Northumbria police area.”

She declined to say who, if anyone, had been interviewed as a result of the Trust’s investigation, saying it would not be appropriate to reveal that information.