Hawking returns home amid claims

A disabled scientist, who is the subject of a police investigation, was today back at home after leaving hospital.

Physicist Stephen Hawking, a mathematics professor at Cambridge University, has spent the last few weeks in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, being treated for a chest infection.

Police are investigating allegations that

Professor Hawking, who is in his 60s and suffers from motor neurone disease, has been abused.

Detectives are hoping to interview him about the allegations once he feels well enough to be questioned.

Professor Hawking, who is confined to a wheelchair, has denied he has been abused and said he felt stories about the allegations were an invasion of his privacy.

A spokesman for Addenbrooke's Hospital today said Professor Hawking had returned home over the weekend.

A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Police said officers were hoping to speak to Professor Hawking in the near future.

Professor Hawking sprang to fame more than a

decade ago following the publication of his book, A Brief History Of Time, which examines the history of the universe.

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