Sex pervert and paedophile Jimmy Savile offered his “services” to detectives during the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper a report into West Yorkshire Police’s dealings with the inquiry revealed today.

Savile volunteered to act as a go-between with “the Ripper” should the man who terrorised Yorkshire streets wish to speak with officers through a third party.

The internal inquiry dubbed Operation Newgreen looked into claims that disgraced DJ Savile was a "person of interest" during attempts to catch Bradford serial killer Peter Sutcliffe in the 1970s.

It found that many records has been destroyed, but did find thousands of record cards with information about men who had been spoken to.

The report said: "They contain scant information and do not indicate whether Savile was a 'person of interest' to the inquiry team.

"The information held was his name, date of birth, home address and various reference numbers.

“It was not possible to establish the relevance of the reference numbers as a large proportion of the investigation paperwork had been destroyed in the 1980s."

But the review said: "One card does make reference to Savile offering his services as an intermediary for the police, should the 'Ripper' wish to make contact."

Analysis of Savile’s horrific history of sex crimes showed his youngest victim in West Yorkshire was five years old.

Only one of the 68 victims, who have come forward, was from the Bradford district with 72 of the 76 recorded crimes being in Leeds.

Almost half of these crimes were against people aged 14 to 17, but nine victims were nine-years-old or under and a further nine were aged 10 to 13.

The figures showed 49 victims were female and 19 were male.

Most of the offences were committed in the 1960s or 70s and the range of reported offences included rape, sexual activity with a child under 13 and indecent exposure.