I’d be interested to see if a single conviction comes out of any of these investigations and arrests. Or even a single court appearence. I can see them all being quietly dropped once the hysterical tabloid shock-horror fest has subsided.
The conviction rate for this kind of thing is woefully low anyway. So how on earth do they expect to try someone for something that happened 40 years ago, which looks like a case of: its his/her word against yours. There’s no way the CPS would proceed with a prosecution on that basis, surely?
Still… the tabloids have got some juicy front pages out of it