http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...police-1415841
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FREDDIE Starr talked for the first time yesterday of his *horror at being dragged into the Jimmy Savile sex scandal and being given a grilling by cops.
Trembling with anger and disgust he told the Sunday People: “The way I’m being treated I feel like I’m the new Yorkshire Ripper.”
“It’s heartbreaking and its affecting my health and everything. It’s *unbelievable. I’m absolutely drained.
“I’ve had four heart attacks. I think if things keep on like this it’s going to kill me... or something will happen.”
Freddie battled to put on a brave face after inviting us for an exclusive interview at his Warwickshire home.
He claims he was distraught when *officers raided his home on Friday, *taking away stacks of his *belongings. They seized a computer hard drive, his old address books, precious old *photographs and his iPhone.
Then, nervously lighting up his fifth cigarette in an hour, Freddie’s voice nearly choked as he said: “I absolutely hate paedophiles. If I even see a child getting hurt on TV I have to change channel.”
Freddie and his fiancée Sophie Lea, 34, have hired a team of private *detectives “working non-stop round the clock” to help clear his name.
And he said that despite his inner turmoil he won’t rest until he has *finally proven his innocence.
Freddie said: "I’m not like Jimmy Savile. I met him three times. Once on the TV show Clunk Clink, once when he came into my sports shop in Leeds and once when he came to see me at a club in London with his mother.
“I’ve put my heart and soul into *showbiz – 50 years unblemished.
“Now all the good work I’ve done has been to no avail. It has all been taken away by one allegation.
“It shouldn’t be like that. But I know the truth will come out in the end.”
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"The laddy doth protest too much, methinks."
