![]() ![]() In addition, some potential victims who reported abuse by Savile also told police about separate allegations against unidentified men that did not involve the BBC host. Police have said that though the majority of cases it is investigating relate to Savile alone, some involve the entertainer and other unidentified suspects. One witness recently told a BBC-TV show that she once saw Glitter having sex with a schoolgirl in Savile’s dressing room at the broadcaster’s TV center in the 1970s. In 2006, the NFL advised its football teams not to use the Glitter version of “Rock and Roll (Part 2)” at games. Glitter, known for his shiny jumpsuits and bouffant wigs, was jailed in Britain in 1999 for possessing child pornography, and convicted in 2006 in Vietnam of committing “obscene acts with children” – offenses involving girls aged 10 and 11. British police do not generally identify suspects under arrest by name until they are charged. He was released later Sunday and was due to return to a London police station in December for further questioning, police said. Police would not directly identify the suspect, but when asked about Glitter a spokesman said the force arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning in London on suspicion of sexual offenses in connection with the Savile probe. On Sunday, 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. ![]() “The BBC risks squandering public trust because one of its stars over three decades was apparently a sexual criminal … and because others – BBC employees and hangers-on – may also have been involved.” “The BBC’s reputation is on the line,” Chris Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, wrote in The Mail on Sunday newspaper. Its executives have apologized and vowed to uncover the true scale of the alleged abuse. The scandal has raised questions about whether the BBC, the publicly funded and trusted broadcaster, had ignored crimes it suspected over several decades. Most claimed they were assaulted in their early teens. Most have alleged abuse by Savile, but some said they were abused by Savile and others. Hundreds of potential victims have since come forward to report similar claims to police against Savile, a much-loved children’s TV presenter and disc jockey who died at the age of 84 last year. Sunday’s arrest was the first in a widening scandal over Savile’s alleged sex crimes, which started garnering attention earlier this month when a television documentary showed several women claiming that Savile abused them when they were teenagers.
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