Scotland Yard officers working on the Jimmy Savile sex abuse case are preparing to arrest up to 12 'household names' within the next couple of days.

Police have discovered that TV stars may have helped Savile in his wave of abuse, or abused children themselves. Met commander Peter Spindler told the Daily Mail, "We will come for them."

Savile is believed to have had accomplices and the celebrities named by victims will be quizzed over sex assault allegations this week. Unveiling his plans for an "arrest strategy" featuring 30 officers, Spindler explained, "There is Savile but there are also others and if those others are living we can now look at them.I really do want them to take heed, and tell them that we will come for them." Despite the police's prompt actions, the Met has confessed they blew several chances to arrest Savile when he was alive. One woman spoke to them in the 1980s, as did another lady in 2003. Surrey police dropped an investigation in 2009 which concerned at four attacks, Jersey police shelved one probe regarding the notorious care home. This week, Business Secretary Vince Cable said, "The real scandal is why was it that in 2009 when he was still alive, the CPS had a lot of evidence and yet didn't prosecute."

Police has so far recorded 114 crimes of sexual abuse, though that could reach 300 after a spate of recent calls.