Gary Glitter arrested - FT.com Gary Glitter, the former pop star, has been arrested on suspicion of sex offences by police investigating claims of abuse by the late BBC TV presenter Jimmy Savile. Mr Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was arrested in a dawn swoop on his London home by officers from Operation Yewtree, a major criminal investigation into alleged sex abuse by Savile, who died last year. While it is too late to bring any criminal charges against the late TV presenter, police said earlier this month they were opening a formal inquiry to follow up leads relating to people who are still alive. So far, officers have identified over 300 possible victims and more than 400 lines of inquiry. Scotland Yard confirmed they had made their first Yewtree arrest on Sunday morning. "Officers working on Operation Yewtree have today, 28 October, arrested a man in his 60s ["Yewtree 1"] in connection with the investigation," the statement read. " of sexual offences, and has been taken into custody at a London police station." Police also confirmed that the individual was being questioned on suspicion of offences carried out with Savile. Mr Gadd was pictured leaving his home with police on Sunday. The former pop star was jailed in 2006 for three years, after a court in Vietnam found him guilty of sexually abusing two girls aged 11 and 12. He was accused of abusing the youngsters at his home in the resort town of Vung Tau, southern Vietnam. Separately, BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten has written of his determination to get to the bottom of the Savile allegations, and said he would "make any and every change necessary" to the BBC once the facts had come out. Writing in the Mail on Sunday, he said there were key questions to be answered. Did some turn a blind eye to criminality? Did some prefer not to follow up their suspicions because of this criminal's popularity and place in the schedules?," Lord Patten wrote. Were reports of criminality put aside or buried? Even those of us who were not there at the time are inheritors of the shame.