John Leslie will not be charged over the latest rape allegation made against him, police said today.

The former Blue Peter presenter was arrested last month after a woman claimed he had attacked her thirteen years ago.

But this evening police dropped the investigation following advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.

Rape allegations against John Leslie, pictured outside his solicitor's office last month, have been dropped

Leslie, dramatically acquitted of two counts of indecent assault in 2003 but ruined professionally by the sex scandal, said there had been 'little justice and no fairness' in the latest probe.

A statement from his lawyers said: 'Yet again, after a complete and thorough investigation, it has been confirmed that there is no truth or substance to the damaging allegations that were made against our client.

'He is of course delighted. The complaint was ridiculous, but yet again and for a second time his name has been dragged through the mud before the law has had a chance to confirm his innocence.

'The law confers a blanket of anonymity on complainants but the accused enjoys no such protection.

'Instead his reputation, his character, his career and his family are regarded as fair game by the media.

'There is little justice and no fairness in what our client and his family have been put through.'

Leslie was arrested after claims made by a 33-year-old woman last September that he raped and sexually assaulted her at his home in 1995.

The 43-year-old, whose career was wrecked by sex and drug allegations after he was named as the alleged rapist of Ulrika Jonsson, was interviewed for thirty minutes after voluntarily attending Teddington Police Station, south west London last month.
Officers also took his fingerprints and a DNA swab.

His alleged victim has told police Leslie forced himself on her at his house in west London, after inviting her and a group of friends back for a party.

Talking the day after his arrest, the former boyfriend of Catherine Zeta-Jones described the allegations as the 'mother of all stitch ups.'

He added:  'Regrettably, as has happened in the past, the details of a private police inquiry have been leaked to the press and once again I face trial by media.

'It is thus with a mixture of anger and distress that I am forced to talk yet again about lies about my private life, lies that destroyed my public career

'I certainly did not attack this person as I have never attacked anyone.

'When, I ask, is this nightmare going to end? If it is considered acceptable to launch an investigation after 13 years, then why not 20 or 30 years?

'If I sound bitter, it is because I am.'

In recent years, Leslie has pursued a career away from showbusiness as a property developer in Scotland.