Lawyers take £2.5 million of Savile’s estate, leaving only a million for victims

The estate of Jimmy Savile has run out of cash after lawyers claimed costs of £2.5m — more than twice the amount that will be paid from the estate to the sex abuser’s victims.
The law firm Osborne Clarke has, according to court documents, claimed £1.8m for its work for NatWest bank — the estate executor — and the running of the compensation scheme. Lawyers working for the claimants will be paid a total of £689,000.
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