By Neil Sears Police are investigating claims that Leonard Rossiter, pictured, was in a gang of sex attackers Police are investigating claims that Leonard Rossiter was in a gang of sex attackers working on a notorious BBC drama. Operation Yewtree officers – whose inquiries were sparked by the Jimmy Savile revelations – have been told the actor, was involved in abuse on the set of the 1968 drama, The Year of the Sex Olympics. Rossiter, who starred in Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, died in 1984. Police are said to be preparing to question up to ten former BBC staff over alleged assaults on a man and a woman.
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Operation Yewtree officers have been told the actor was involved in abuse
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Claims it happened on set of the 1968 drama, The Year of the Sex Olympics
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Police are said to be preparing to question up to ten former BBC staff
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