UK: Paul Gambaccini wins payout from CPS over dropped sex abuse investigation
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British broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has reached a confidential settlement with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) over a dropped investigation into sex abuse allegations against him.
Mr Gambaccini was arrested in 2013 as part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation into child sex abuse by British media figures launched after the Jimmy Savile revelations.
He spent a year on bail before the CPS confirmed in 2014 that no charges would be brought. Mr Gambaccini later claimed that he had fallen victim to a “witch-hunt”.
Ireland’s late Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman wrote in 2016 that Mr Gambaccini’s treatment had led him “to wonder whether presumption of innocence can survive in a legal system which permits the police and the media to destroy a person’s reputation in advance of any trial”.
The amount paid out to Mr Gambaccini under the settlement is confidential, The Guardian reports.
A spokesperson for the CPS said: “We have reached an agreement without admission of liability.”
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