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| Operation Yewtree: Freddie Starr facing fresh claims | Operation Yewtree: Freddie Starr facing fresh claims |
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| Entertainer Freddie Starr has been re-arrested over fresh allegations of sexual offences under Operation Yewtree, unrelated to Jimmy Savile. | Entertainer Freddie Starr has been re-arrested over fresh allegations of sexual offences under Operation Yewtree, unrelated to Jimmy Savile. |
| Mr Starr was arrested before on suspicion of sexual offences under the "Savile and others" strand of the operation. | |
| He has previously denied any wrongdoing and has been re-bailed until June. | |
| Operation Yewtree was set up following the revelation of the sexual offences carried out by Jimmy Savile. | |
| The former DJ and television presenter abused adults and children over more than five decades, according to a Metropolitan Police report. | |
| The NSPCC described him as one of the most prolific sex offenders in its 129-year history. | |
| Operation Yewtree has three strands. One concerns Savile's crimes exclusively, whilst another relates to allegations against Savile and others, and Mr Starr was arrested on 1 November 2012 under this strand. | |
| The third strand, under which Mr Starr has been arrested today, concentrates on accusations unconnected to the Savile investigations but whose victims came forward as a result of the publicity surrounding Savile. | |
| The entertainer from Warwickshire, who is in his 60s, has previously denied claims that he groped a girl of 14 while in a BBC dressing room with Savile. |