Overview
- Metropolitan Police arrested the 50-year-old on February 10 on suspicion of attempted rape, exposure and sexual assault by touching linked to an alleged 2007 incident involving a woman in her twenties in London.
- Clarke was interviewed at Islington police station by detectives from the Central Specialist Crime Command and was released on bail pending further inquiries.
- Detectives also questioned him about an alleged 2013 voyeurism offence for which he was first arrested in September 2025, with the complainant described as a woman in her twenties.
- He attended the station by appointment with his wife and lawyer before being arrested and questioned, according to police and contemporaneous reporting.
- The arrest follows a High Court defeat in August 2025 over his libel claim against the Guardian that left him with multimillion-pound costs before he was declared bankrupt on December 11, 2025, and he has publicly denied the allegations.