Yewtree felled......

As I predicted here only 4 days ago, Yewtree is becoming less farce, more low comedy. Here is the latest press report

‘Officers working on Operation Yewtree, the police investigation launched in the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal to look into suspected sexual offences, released former BBC producer Wilfred De'Ath, 75, without charge on Monday evening after he was arrested over an alleged sex assault in 1965.

Speculation is also mounting that comedian Freddie Starr would soon be told that he will also not be charged over claims he attempted to grope a 14-year-old in Savile's BBC changing room in 1974, the Daily Mail reported.

The police operation, believed to have cost £1 million and has 30 dedicated detectives, has been criticised by some as a 'celebrity witch-hunt'.

De'Ath described the inquiry this week as "over-zealous", telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "My general comment would be that Operation Yewtree has gone too far. It is getting silly now."

Earlier this month, one of Britain's top prosecution lawyers was accused of hyping up the investigation as if it were a "box office event" when he told the public to expect a dramatic new wave of celebrity arrests’.

De’Ath was accused of groping the thighs of a 14-year-old girl at a cinema nearly 50 years ago.

DLT was accused of sex with a 25-year-old.

Freddie Starr was a serial groper, it is alleged.

Now we hear that only 3 of the 14 men arrested will be charged.

There is no evidence warranting a prosecution in the other 11 cases.

So why were they arrested in the first place if there was no evidence of substance?

This is all so far removed from the Savile scandal, which was about unlawful sexual intercourse with under-age girls that it is difficult to understand why the police pursued this line of enquiry

Unless Yewtree is all a smokescreen to cover up the shortcomings of the police themselves.

Meanwhile, these old guys will have to live under the ’Savile’ stigma for the rest of their lives.