Savile investigators arrest Glitter

British former pop star Gary Glitter is arrested as police investigate a child sex abuse scandal involving late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile.

BRITISH celebrities are expecting their hedonistic lives in London in the 1960s and '70s could now catch up with them after the arrest of Gary Glitter over alleged child sex offences.

Police yesterday held the former glam pop star for 10 hours before releasing him on bail to reappear in mid December "pending further inquiries".

The 68-year-old, real name Paul Gadd, was arrested as part of the probe into British celebrity Jimmy Savile who died last year but for the last month has been making daily headlines as more than 300 people have come forward to say he abused them as children.

Scotland Yard has now described Savile as possibly the worst paedophile in British history with evidence he preyed on young boys and girls at his office at BBC studios, a children's home and hospital for mentally and physically disabled children.

Savile's victims were both male and female with the youngest being just nine-years-old at the time she was abused. Many instances of the alleged assaults and molestations occurred at the BBC studio where he hosted the top rating Top of the Pops and Jim'll Fix It TV shows as well as a caravan on the BBC lot in west London.

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

Glitter, who is already on a child sex offender registry following charges in Vietnam in 2006, has not commented about his arrest which police would only say was related to "suspicion of sexual offences".

"The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'Savile and others'," a police spokesman said.

Police moved on Glitter at his London home early in the morning. 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.

Operation Yewtree into Savile is reportedly investigating up to a dozen celebrities and personalities implicated for allegedly abusing children in the 1960s through to the 1980s or procuring them for the likes of Savile. Police have said further arrests were likely.

UK police say 300 potential sexual abuse victims of late TV star Jimmy Savile have been identified. Picture: Getty Images

PR guru to many British stars Max Clifford said dozens of big name stars from the 1960s and '70s have contacted him because they are "frightened" they will become implicated in the widening child abuse scandal.

He said the stars were worried because at their peak they had lived a hedonistic lifestyle where young girls threw themselves at them but they "never asked for anybody's birth certificate".

"All kinds of things went on and I do mean young girls throwing themselves at them in their dressing rooms at concert halls, at gigs, whatever," he said.

"They never asked for anybody's birth certificate and they were young lads ... suddenly everyone's dream was a reality."

Convicted paedophile Gary Glitter is alleged to have a raped a girl, 13, in Jimmy Saville's dressing room at the BBC.

At least one victim of Savile is an Australian man from NSW.

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said today an immediate inquiry was required but not one so big it took years to probe.

"There is always a danger if you set up a very substantial inquiry process of that kind that it takes much longer to get to the truth," he said.

"What should be happening right now first and foremost - and clearly is happening with the police - is we should be looking to see who is still around who was involved, and criminal proceedings should follow if people were guilty of participating in these offences alongside Jimmy Savile. That is of paramount importance."

Footage has emerged of Jimmy Savile grouping a girl during a TV show

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.

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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