Just been on Sky News that Dave Lee Travis has been arrested on suspicion of sexual offences.
Just been on Sky News that Dave Lee Travis has been arrested on suspicion of sexual offences.
Dave Lee Travis arrested on suspicion of sexual offences
Dave Lee Travis is best known for his 25-year stint on Radio 1
Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis has been arrested as part of the police probe set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, the BBC understands.
Police said a man in his 60s from Bedfordshire was being held on suspicion of sexual offences.
The Met said their investigation into alleged abuse by Savile and others - Operation Yewtree - had so far recorded 200 allegations of sexual assault.
They have now identified about 450 potential victims of sexual abuse.
The arrest of Mr Travis, 67, is the fourth so far in connection with the Savile investigation.
In a statement, the Met said the latest arrest "falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed 'Others'", meaning the allegations are unrelated to Savile.
But the force said that the "vast majority" of the 450 possible victims were alleging sexual abuse by former BBC TV presenter and DJ Savile, who died last year aged 84.
Mr Travis has not been officially named by police.
The DJ - known by the nicknames DLT and the Hairy Cornflake - is best known for his 25-year stint on Radio 1.
Reporters outside Mr Travis's home earlier
His career on the station came to an end in 1993 when he resigned on-air from his role, telling listeners he was unhappy with changes that were taking place.
Mr Travis also presented editions of Top of the Pops in the 1970s and 1980s.
He now presents The DLT Show for the Magic network.
'Worse than feared'
The number of potential victims in the investigation into Savile has risen since last month, when police said they had identified about 300 people who say they were abused by the late entertainer and others.
Abuse inquiries
BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said: "The police said a couple of weeks ago that Savile was a predatory sex offender - one of the worst sex offenders that they had come across.
- Operation Yewtree: Scotland Yard criminal investigation into claims that Jimmy Savile sexually abused young people
- BBC investigation into management failures over the dropping of a Newsnight report into the Savile allegations
- BBC investigation into culture and practices during Savile's career and current policies
- BBC investigation into handling of past sexual harassment claims
- Department of Health investigation into Savile's appointment to Broadmoor "taskforce" and his activities at Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary
- Director of Public Prosecutions review into decisions not to prosecute Savile in 2009
- North Wales abuse inquiry by National Crime Agency head into abuse claims from 70s and 80s, fresh claims, and police handling of the claims
- Mrs Justice Macur appointed by PM to review the 2000 Waterhouse review which looked into the north Wales abuse
- BBC Scotland director Ken MacQuarrie into what happened with the Newsnight investigation into north Wales abuse claims
"The figures that we are being given today suggest that the scale of his offending is even worse than was first feared."
Savile, a Radio 1 DJ and presenter of the Jim'll Fix It show on BBC1, was a household name in the 1970s and 1980s.
But since his death in October last year, details have emerged suggesting he was a paedophile who abused young people on BBC premises, in various care homes and even in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, over a period of five decades.
Former pop star Gary Glitter was the first person to be arrested in connection with the Met's Savile abuse inquiry.
Glitter, 68, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was arrested on suspicion of sex offences and bailed until mid-December.
On 1 November police arrested entertainer Freddie Starr on suspicion of sexual offences.
He has denied claims made against him and was bailed after a number of hours of questioning.
On Sunday, former BBC producer Wilfred De'Ath, who is in his 70s, was arrested on suspicion of sexual offences. He was later bailed until December.
after he came second in the uk national "name that sandwich" competition.known by the nicknames DLT
Dlt ! The Scary Pornflake
EH ??Originally Posted by taxexile
Keeping my fingers crossed for Noel Edmonds next......
My bet.
Rodney Bewes of the Likely Lads.
Based on this very odd interview.
Whatever happened to the other likely lad? | Mail Online
Sounds like a real relic of the disgusting seventies.
Bollocks.Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog
Rodney Bollocks?
I notice all these pedos seem to be masons.![]()
Never could stand the prick BUT as they say in UK justice ,, innocent UNTILL proven guilty .
With the road McAlpine is now going down it might pay some on here to temper what they say a bit , until proven .
Another paedo outed.
- By Keir Mudie
Abuse scandals probe widens: The man who may hold key to UK's biggest paedophile network ever
11 Nov 2012 09:11 Charles Napier could provide vital evidence for police investigating a child abuse scandal spanning three decades
Inquiry: Charles Napier near his home on Friday Newspics
In the picturesque Dorset town of Sherborne, Charles Napier is an upstanding member of the community.
He is known as a respected retired languages teacher, a playwright and theatre director.
Only last month he gave a lecture on William Shakespeare at the town's literary festival.
But Napier's sordid past threatens to drag him into the heart of new inquiries into a child abuse scandal spanning three decades.
Evidence now being examined by Metropolitan Police detectives links Napier to Peter Righton, one of Britain's most high-profile paedophiles.
Righton is now long dead. But Napier is not. Now 68 and living with his mother in the West Country, he could prove a vital witness to the unfolding police inquiry into child abuse on a massive scale in this country.
Both men were linked to a shadowy organisation called the Paedophile Information Exchange which campaigned in the 70s and 80s for what they called the age of "child love" to be reduced to four.
Paedophile scandal: Charles Napier could provide vital evidence for police enquiry into UK's biggest paedophile network - Mirror Online
Friends of the family....
Loyal Friend Of Prince Charles Arrested On Suspicion Of Child Sex Offences
November 14, 2012 By TheTruthIsNow Leave a Comment
Prince Charles – what strange company he seems to keep, but it’s all a coincidence, nothing to worry about. Back to sleep everyone.
By Robert Booth
Guardian:
Detectives investigating complaints of sexual abuse in the Church of England have arrested a retired bishop on suspicion of eight sexual offences against eight boys and young men ranging in age from 12 to early 20s.
Officers from the Sussex police serious crime directorate involved in a six-month investigation into historic allegations at the diocese of Chichester arrested the Rt Rev Peter Ball, former bishop of Lewes and later bishop of Gloucester, on Tuesday morning at his home address near Landport, Somerset.
Ball is thought to be the most senior figure in the church to be arrested in connection with a sex abuse investigation. The bishop, now 80, has connections to Prince Charles, whom he has described in the past as “a loyal friend”.
Early 20s,?? concensual or rape /Originally Posted by ENT
Jeez all this shit is unraveling fast
best build some pre-fab jails PDQ
didn,t Charles youngest brother , Edward got caught having his Dick sucked by a servant in Buck House ?
Lib Dem MP Sir Cyril Smith implicated.
His half brother is Charles Napier. (see post # 265, above)
Larger-than-life’ Lib Dem MP Sir Cyril Smith is the latest public figure to be accused of routinely molesting young boys, with Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk set to demand an inquiry into the claims.
Former residents at a boys hostel in Rochdale alleged in an investigation by PoliticsHome that they had been subjected to “medicals” where they had their buttocks and testicles stroked, and their bare bottoms slapped by Smith, during the 190s.
The former Liberal MP for Rochdale, who weighed 29-stone at his heaviest, had been subject to rumours about abuse at the Cambridge House hostel for many years, but Danczuk, the current Labour MP in Rochdale, is to raise the abuse claims during a child sexual exploitation debate in the commons on Tuesday, and call for the police files on Smith from the 1970s to be released.
[QUOTE="ENT"]nd call for the police files on Smith from the 1970s to be released.
as I posted before it was common knowledge way back then
You did, too.
If I remember right it was Charley getting the sav sucked by a servant, ...could have been Eddy was gay/bi too, he appeared so, but I dunno.
Michael Fawcett was Charley's valet, accused of raping another palace servant George Smith who divulged all to Princess Di, then topped himself later.
DJ Dave Lee Travis says arrest not linked to children
Dave Lee Travis appeared outside his home on Friday to speak to reporters
DJ Dave Lee Travis has said his arrest on suspicion of sexual offences is "nothing to do with kids" and denies any wrongdoing.
The 67-year-old ex-Radio 1 DJ, of Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, spoke after he was taken off air with immediate effect by radio station Magic AM.
He said he was "sad and disappointed" by the decision to take him off air.
Mr Travis was arrested and bailed as part of the police probe arising from the Jimmy Savile scandal.
He is due to return to answer police bail in early January, police said.
'Complete denial'
"This is nothing to do with kids, all right? That's the first thing. Because that to me is the most important thing in the world and I do not wish to have my name sullied around something that bloody evil, to be honest.
"The second thing I want is to say, yes, there's a complete denial there, but there's nothing else I can tell you because otherwise I might be stepping on the police's feet and I don't want to do that because it might affect their investigations."
He also denied all the unspecified allegations against him, but said he would not be able to do anything to prove or disprove them.
Hello Sailor...
Captain Pugwash interviewed in Saville row
November 14, 2012 By TheTruthIsNow Leave a Comment
Police released on bail notorious former naval officer RN Captain Pugwash after he was accused of lewd acts by Seaman Stains and Master Bates. But with Glitter now on bail they believe they have the leader of the gang.
Nah he slipped away to host " cum Dancing Across the Floor "
[quote="ChrisM"]RN Captain Pugwash after he was accused of lewd acts by Seaman Stains and Master Bates.
as you and I know those were the actual names of the crew of Pugwash , 1960s BBC TV
[quote=themanfrommontrose;2272608]Urban myth - and the cabin boy wasn't called Roger either.Originally Posted by ChrisM
The old episodes are available for download.
I think there was someone called 'Willy' on the Black Pig though.
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