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| Operation Yewtree officers arrest man | Operation Yewtree officers arrest man |
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| Metropolitan Police officers have arrested another man as part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation into historic sex offences. | Metropolitan Police officers have arrested another man as part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation into historic sex offences. |
| In a brief statement, Scotland Yard said that officers had arrested a man in his 60s in connection with the investigation. | In a brief statement, Scotland Yard said that officers had arrested a man in his 60s in connection with the investigation. |
| The man was arrested at 07:40 GMT on suspicion of sexual offences and taken to a central London police station. | The man was arrested at 07:40 GMT on suspicion of sexual offences and taken to a central London police station. |
| The individual is the sixth to be questioned as part of the operation. | |
| The Metropolitan Police launched Operation Yewtree after revelations that the late Jimmy Savile sexually abused young people during his broadcasting career. The Yewtree investigation has three separate parts. | The Metropolitan Police launched Operation Yewtree after revelations that the late Jimmy Savile sexually abused young people during his broadcasting career. The Yewtree investigation has three separate parts. |
| One is looking at the actions of Jimmy Savile while the other two strands are investigations into allegations against "Savile and others" and, separately, complaints against other people. | One is looking at the actions of Jimmy Savile while the other two strands are investigations into allegations against "Savile and others" and, separately, complaints against other people. |
| Scotland Yard said the man arrested on Thursday morning had been arrested as part of the last category of the operation. | |
| Overall, five people have been arrested and a sixth has been questioned as part of the investigations, sparked after the scale of Jimmy Savile's abuse was uncovered. | |
| Beyond the police, the Department of Health are investigating into its own conduct in appointing Jimmy Savile to lead a "taskforce" to oversee the management of high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor in 1998 and it is also probing Savile's activities at Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. | |
| The Director of Public Prosecutions is also reviewing a historic decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute Savile amid allegations before he died. |