to a teenager for explicit photos. the bbc has released new details of its investigation into the claims. it says just two attempts were made over several weeks to contact the family concerned. the bbc s director general tim davie confirmed that the unnamed presenter was not spoken to about the issue until seven weeks after the initial complaint when new information had emerged. he also conceded, that the allegations had been clearly damaging . the bbc has been asked to pause its investigation by police while they make further inquiries. on may 18th, the complainant went to a bbc building to make the initial allegation. the following day, the complaint was assessed by the bbc s corporate investigations team. that team decided that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality, but nonetheless merited further investigation. also on may 19th, the bbc says it emailed the complainant but received no response. untiljune 6th when the bbc says it made a phone call to t
to a teenager for explicit photos. the bbc has released new details of its investigation into the claims. it says just two attempts were made over several weeks to contact the family concerned. the bbc s director general tim davie confirmed that the unnamed presenter was not spoken to about the issue until seven weeks after the initial complaint when new information had emerged. he also conceded, that the allegations had been clearly damaging . the bbc has been asked to pause its investigation by police while they make further inquiries. on may 18th, the complainant went to a bbc building to make the initial allegation. the following day, the complaint was assessed by the bbc s corporate investigations team. that team decided that the complaint did not include an allegation of criminality, but nonetheless merited further investigation. also on may 19th, the bbc says it emailed the complainant but
we re in a strange situation he has not been named, but everyone in this building knows who it is and there are an awful lot of people who you also have a duty of care to, male presenters on air, who are having to go on air to say that it s not them. it s not a sustainable situation. it s a difficult and complex situation and we re trying to calmly and judiciously navigate our way through quite difficult circumstances, whereas i said you ve got to balance duty of care issues, privacy issues. i think i would restate that it is absolutely not the right thing to be doing, to speculate, some of the malicious stuff online. understood. i would condemn that, but i have to make those calls, as director general, in a balanced manner. but the situation isn t sustainable, is it? we need to let the police do their work in terms of seeking evidence and further activity. have there been any other
been halted at the request of the metropolitan police and the reason for that is that if this does go to a police investigation and potentially further down the line towards prosecution, and i emphasise these are big if the mac, they want these are big if the mac, they want the evidence to be as untainted as possible these are big ifs. you want it to be as fresh as possible and not tainted by contact with the bbc or other people if it can be avoided. it makes the chances of a fair prosecution, if it gets to that stage, a fair prosecution going ahead so the bbc has obviously said it will comply with that and then it will conduct its own investigation once that has all been finished, when the metropolitan police, for whatever reason, say our work on this has finished. what the bbc have said is that in a wider sense, they
dealing with here? it even about the timeline we are dealing with here? even about the timeline we are dealing with here? it tells us the timeline is dealing with here? it tells us the timeline is potentially dealing with here? it tells us the timeline is potentially very - dealing with here? it tells us the timeline is potentially very long l timeline is potentially very long and that we don t know how long the metropolitan police will take to do their scoping exercise and it could be the last stage of how the metropolitan police look at this, it could bejust metropolitan police look at this, it could be just the first stage, this isn t a metropolitan police investigation, they have underlined that, they are saying it s a scoping exercise, they have spoken to the bbc and presumably the bbc have passed on whatever evidence has been given to the bbc themselves, but we don t know if the metropolitan police intend to or have spoken to the family of the young individual in question. h