FORMER pop star Gary Glitter has left a London police station after his arrest by police investigating the Jimmy Savile scandal.
He was held on Sunday morning at his home in central London and taken to a police station.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Officers working on Operation Yewtree have today arrested a man in his 60s in connection with the investigation.
"The man, from London, was arrested at approximately 7.15am on suspicion of sexual offences and has been taken into custody at a London police station.
"The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'Savile and others'.''
Former British rock star Gary Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, returns home in central London after he was arrested earlier in the day by British police as they probe the mountain of sexual abuse allegations against the late TV star Jimmy Savile. AFP/Leon Neal
Scotland Yard was not available for comment on Glitter's release. Police did not say what led to his arrest.
Police moved on Glitter at his London home early in the morning in what Scotland Yard said was ?suspicion of sexual offences? related to British entertaining icon Jimmy Savile.
The BBC and Sky News showed footage of Glitter, who wore a hat, a dark coat and sunglasses, being taken from his home by officers and driven away. Glitter was later photographed leaving Charing Cross police station on Sunday afternoon.
Scotland Yard later said Glitter was bailed to return to the police station in mid-December pending further inquiries, the Press Association reported.
UK police say 300 potential sexual abuse victims of late TV star Jimmy Savile have been identified. Picture: Getty Images
Savile died last year aged 84 but last month police launched an investigation into the BBC personality and former host of Top of the Pops after evidence he was a serial paedophile.
Police have now identified more than 300 victims of Savile and other celebrities in the UK and are pursuing 400 lines of inquiry.
Among those are child abuse in schools, at the BBC studios in London including an on-site recording bus and abuse of physical and mental children at a hospital. At least one Savile victim is an Australian man from New South Wales.
The Savile Operation Yewtree is specifically looking at up to a dozen people who were either child abusers or procured children for Savile; among those are reportedly up to nine current BBC TV and radio personalities.
Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter is alleged to have a raped a girl, 13, in Jimmy Saville's dressing room at the BBC.
Glitter, the British glam rock popstar from the 1970s, was last night being interviewed by detectives from the Savile probe.
His name, and real name Paul Gadd, is already tied to child sex after he was convicted in the UK in 1999 on child pornography and later prosecuted in Vietnam in 2006 for sex offences against minors. He was deported back to Britain in 2008.
Glitter rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of UK hits, including the crowd-pleasing hit Rock & Roll (Part 2), a mostly instrumental anthem that has been a staple at sporting events thanks to its catchy "hey" chorus, but his music has often been shunned since his abuse convictions.
It is now alleged the disgraced 68-year-old had sex with a schoolgirl in Savile's BBC dressing room in the 1970s. Glitter has denied the allegations.
There is evidence BBC management chose to ignore multiple complaints of Savile?s abuse and those of other personalities and even killed off a documentary by its own staff that last year was set to expose him as a serial paedophile.
On Sunday, the chairman of the BBC Trust said he was committed to finding out the true scale of the scandal to save the broadcaster's reputation. "Can it really be the case that no one knew what he was doing? Did some turn a blind eye to criminality? Did some prefer not to follow up their suspicions because of this criminal's popularity and place in the schedules?" Chris Patten wrote in The Mail on Sunday.
The BBC has set up an independent inquiry into the corporation's culture and practices in the years Savile worked there. It also launched a separate inquiry into whether its journalists dropped an investigation into the allegations.
Scotland Yard has confirmed Savile is the worst paedophile in British history and further arrests were expected.
The Savile matter has shocked the British public not least of all because of the other personalities linked to the abuse.
-With AP
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