Rape threat
The threat was alleged to have been made in an answer phone message left on The X Factor presenter Dermot O’Leary’s mobile phone last month.
Police said a boy, 17, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, had been arrested and released on bail.
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SUBSCRIBEThe threat was alleged to have been made in an answer phone message left on The X Factor presenter Dermot O’Leary’s mobile phone last month.
Police said a boy, 17, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, had been arrested and released on bail.
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