Rolf Harris has been named in a UK newspaper as the Australian arrested last month over an alleged sexual abuse scandal.
The Sun reports the 83-year-old entertainer was taken into police custody and questioned over decades-old sex abuse allegations.
Detectives first raided Harris’ home in Berkshire, England, on November 24 last year. He was not home during the raid, but travelled to a South London police station five days later for questioning.
Harris was then arrested on March 28, two days before his 83rd birthday.
“An 82-year-old man from Berkshire was arrested by officers on Operation Yewtree on suspicion of sexual offences,” Scotland Yard said at the time.
“He has been bailed to a date in May pending further enquiries. The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed ‘others’.”
Operation Yewtree is the task force set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, but Harris’ alleged offences are not believed to be linked to Savile’s.
Police have refused to give any further details about Harris’ allegations.
Harris has been repeatedly named on social media in the past five months, but police have refused to confirm he was involved in any sex scandal.
Harris’ agents and lawyers have not commented about his arrest but The Sun reports he vehemently denies the allegations.
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