Who guitarist Pete Townshend, arrested and released on bail by police earlier this month for investigation of child porn, says he has evidence that will clear his name, according to a statement on his Web site.

Townshend, 57, had his home in England searched and computer equipment seized by Scotland Yard, but has so far not been charged on any counts. Townshend's Jan. 13 arrest and brief time in custody was part of a sweeping crackdown on child porn in England.

On his site, Townshend says he has e-mail evidence to verify that he previously contacted the online watchdog group Internet Watch Foundation to complain about Web sites appealing to pedophiles.

As Townshend says on his site: "You may recall that among the media frenzy of a couple of weeks ago, representatives of the Internet Watch Foundation told the press and the news stations that they had never heard from me.

"I, of course, know that I did communicate with them several times last year, and they have now supplied to us copies of my e-mails to them, one in August and the rest in November.

"My lawyers have written to the founder of the IWF, Mark Stephens, who was adamant that they had never heard from me, asking for an explanation."

As yet there has been no statement reported from the IWF.