Man bailed after superstar porn quiz

Detectives searching Britain’s most prolific serial superstar stalker who despatched pornographic mail to a string of feminine stars have launched a person in his 70s on bail.

Police swooped on an tackle within the Wigan space of Higher Manchester at about 7.45am yesterday following appeals on the BBC’s Crimewatch UK programme.

The person was detained on suspicion of inflicting a public nuisance and was quizzed at an undisclosed police station in Higher Manchester.

He was later launched on bail pending additional inquiries and can return to the identical police station on June 12, Scotland Yard mentioned.

Police refused to call the suspect or affirm hypothesis he had been concerned within the theatre enterprise previously.

Officers have been led to the Wigan space following a name from a Crimewatch UK viewer, police mentioned.

The hunt for the stalker started in December final 12 months after a criticism from actress Moira Lister, who was then showing in a West Finish Present. Since then it emerged as much as 60 ladies could have been focused over the previous 20 years.

Victims included former newsreader Jan Leeming and Avengers actress Dame Diana Rigg. Pan’s Individuals dancer Dee Dee Wilde additionally acquired pornographic messages in addition to Felicity Kendal, star of The Good Life and Susan Hampshire, whose successes embody the hit BBC drama Monarch of the Glen.

Former Tory Cupboard minister Virginia Bottomley and Anne Heseltine, spouse of former Deputy Prime Minister Michael, additionally acquired disgusting letters.

All of the recipients are well-known ladies “of a sure age”. Many are stage actresses who have been on the peak of their reputation within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties.

Their public picture is of a healthful and virtuous lady held up as a job mannequin for hundreds of thousands of others.

The distress suffered by the ladies – many who believed they have been lone targets – emerged after BBC’s Crimewatch UK broadcast an enchantment to trace down the letter author.

Many of the letters despatched by the stalker have been in airmail envelopes with postmarks from Wigan, Manchester, Bolton or Bury.

The letters have been examined by doc professional Keir Hartley of the Forensic Science Service.

It’s hoped DNA checks carried out on the letters will assist to establish the stalker.