( CNN ) -- British police investigating abuse claims against disgraced TV host Jimmy Savile arrested a London man Sunday on suspicion of sexual offenses . Police did not release the suspect 's name , but said the man they arrested falls under the `` Savile and others '' strand of their investigation . The man was later released on bail . British media reported that the man arrested was 1970s pop star Gary Glitter . A TV documentary a month ago detailed allegations of sexual abuse against Savile . Police investigating the scandal are dealing with about 300 apparent victims , Cmdr . Peter Spindler told reporters . Savile 's favored targets were apparently girls in their mid-teens in what Spindler said was `` alleged abuse on an unprecedented scale . '' The British TV icon died in October 2011 at age 84 . But authorities have said they are preparing an arrest strategy for others , still living , against whom allegations have been made in connection with the Savile case . Profile : Idolized in life , reviled in death . Countless Britons who grew up watching Savile on TV 's `` Top of the Pops '' and his children 's program `` Jim 'll Fix It '' have been left reeling by the slew of claims against him in the past month . The reputation of the British Broadcasting Corporation , his former employer , has also been tainted by the scandal amid questions over how his abuse went undetected , and its decision to drop a program investigating allegations him last year . `` Now the BBC risks squandering public trust because one of its stars over three decades was apparently a sexual criminal ; because he used his programme and popularity as a cover for his wickedness ; because he used BBC premises for some of his attacks ; and because others -- BBC employees and hangers-on -- may also have been involved , '' BBC Chairman Lord Patten wrote in an editorial published Sunday in the Daily Mail . The BBC has said it is horrified by the revelations and has launched two independent inquiries . How scandal has rocked BBC . Sunday 's arrest comes a day after Savile 's family made its first public statement since a slew of claims of sexual abuse of under-age girls destroyed the reputation of a man they had regarded as a hero . Savile 's nephew , Roger Foster , had defended his late uncle -- who hosted shows watched and heard by a generation of young Britons -- in a newspaper interview before the allegations emerged in a TV documentary a month ago . But as those few claims snowballed into hundreds , the family had to face up to the horrific truth : that the man they were so proud of as a media star and tireless charity fundraiser had a far darker side to his past . `` I watched the program in horror and could not believe that these allegations were about our uncle . This was n't the man we knew and loved , '' Foster said . `` We began to have doubts as to our own feeling towards our uncle . How could the person we thought we knew and loved do such a thing ? `` Why would a man who raised so much money for charity , who gave so much of his own time and energy for others risk it all doing indecent criminal acts ? How could anyone live their life doing the 'most good and most evil ' at the same time ? '' CNN 's Laura Smith-Spark and Per Nyberg contributed to this report .
British media say that the man arrested was 1970s pop singer Gary Barlow . Police say they arrested a London man on suspicion of sexual offenses . They are investigating after a documentary detailed allegations of sexual abuse against Savile . Savile 's nephew : ` ` I watched the documentary in horror ''