British pop star probed for SA teen's '70s rape

And now, on the desk of a Sea Point police detective lies a docket of a similar explosive nature.

The investigation, which has the potential to send shock waves across the world, revolves around a child rape allegation against a global pop star from the UK.

A Grammy award winning singer, he holds an OBE and has been courted by politicians, celebrities and TV networks across the world.

A Sea Point woman, now in her 50s, has provided police with graphic testimony alleging the superstar raped her on his bed in room 629 of the old President Hotel when she was a 14-year-old virgin.

Her evidence is that the nightmare experience began innocently on a Saturday in 1976 when she and her friends went autograph hunting at the hotel.

By chance, the naïve teenagers arrived as the star, then in his thirties, was arriving at the hotel in his limousine. He spotted them and instructed a bodyguard to give them tickets to his concert that night at the Three Arts in Plumstead.

During the show a minder allegedly tapped the complainant on her shoulder and told her the star would like to meet her in his hotel room the next day.

After Sunday school class the girl and her friends, aged 13 and 14, walked to the nearby President Hotel, hoping to get an autograph for their “find a star” project.

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