Comedian Jimmy Tarbuck has become the latest celebrity to be arrested on suspicion of child sex abuse in relation to a claim he assaulted a young boy in the 1970s.
The former quiz show host and entertainer was arrested by North Yorkshire Police in Kingston Upon Thames on 26 April and was released on bail pending the outcome of further enquiries.
This followed a lead supplied by investigators at Operation Yewtree although North Yorkshire Police insist the arrest ‘is not part of Yewtree, but a separate investigation’.
Tarbuck’s is the latest in a long line of arrests stemming from revelations surrounding the conduct of Jimmy Savile in 2011, when hundreds of abuse allegations were made.