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No charges for broadcaster Paul Gambaccini | |
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BBC broadcaster Paul Gambaccini will not face action over alleged historical sex offences, prosecutors say. | BBC broadcaster Paul Gambaccini will not face action over alleged historical sex offences, prosecutors say. |
The 65-year-old was held at a south London address in October last year as part of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Yewtree investigation. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service said a 75-year-old man arrested on the same day will also face no further action. | |
It said the inquiry concerned allegations of sexual offences against teenage boys in the early 1980s. | |
Mr Gambaccini has always denied the claims. | |
Baljit Ubhey, the Chief Crown Prosecutor of CPS London, said: "Having carefully reviewed this case, we have decided that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute." | |
The CPS said the allegations of sexual offences were made by two males believed to be aged between 14 and 15 at the time of the alleged offences. | |
The allegations were said to have taken place over a two-year period. | |
Mr Gambaccini and the 75-year-old were arrested at separate addresses on 29 October 2013. | |
They were the 15th and 17th people detained under Operation Yewtree, which was set up in 2012 following revelations of sexual abuse carried out by DJ Jimmy Savile. | |
Police say the investigation fell under the strand of the Yewtree termed "others" - those allegations not connected to Savile. The other two strands concern the actions of Savile himself, and those involving "Savile and others". |