The High Court has heard how Jimmy Savile victim Karin Ward has been left to “twist in the wind” by the BBC has she fights Freddie Starr’s £300,000 defamation claim.

Ward is being sued over comments she gave to BBC Newsnight in 2011 for a story which was controversially spiked by the broadcaster. The BBC instead broadcast Christmas tributes to the deceased DJ.

The Ward BBC interview was later used by Panorama.