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regarding the welfare of a not old, but they said no criminality was identified. they said following recent events, further inquiries have been carried out and officers have been carried out and officers have spoken to a number of parties to establish whether there has been any criminal allegations. they say this time there is no evidence for any criminal offences and there are no ongoing inquiries being carried out now by south wales police. but at the met police for said, they have gone on to say if that changes, they will course look into it. laura, what s happened in the past few hours, take us through the events of the past few days as well. in terms of how things have unfolded, on friday last week, the sun newspaper published its first report carrying a mother s claims that an unnamed bbc presenter paid thousands to their 20 year old child for explicit images over three years. they claimed it started when that child was 17, a potential criminal offence. are there alloca ....
contacted anonymously by the bbc presenter via a dating app and claims the presenter then sent menacing messages. our special correspondent lucy manning has the story and she s with me now. to be clear, this is a different young person to the one the sun has reported about. this individual was first contacted by the mail presenter on a dating app and after the two had connected on the app, the two had connected on the app, the conversation moved to private messaging and the young person has told bbc news they were surprised to find out who the presenter was when he revealed his identity and a presenter told the young person not to tell anyone. but the young person has told us that they felt they were put under repeated requests and pressure to meet up. they did in fact never meet up. later, the young person alluded online to the fact that they were having contact with the bbc presenter and they implied that online, they might name him at some point. the presenter reac ....
things did suddenly pick up and kick in from last thursday when the sun reported it, but when you look at the timeline, the question is partly because the bbc said the sun s report contained new allegations what was the initial complaint? in terms of the situation we ve got on our hands, i want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues and legitimate public interests, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence? i ve given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get coming into our corporate investigations unit. over six months, that will be about 250 and you take those and they are the serious complaints that are coming through of all different types. what happens is we have an outstanding corporate investigations team, they re very experienced, they assess the complaint. i m not going to go into the absolute specifics because of privacy concerns. i underst ....
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 cal ....
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