Met asks BBC to pause internal inquiries into suspended presenter
The Guardian says The Metropolitan police have asked the BBC to pause its inquiries into a suspended male presenter while specialist officers decide if there is any justification for a criminal investigation.
The BBC director general, Tim Davie, said the Met had taken control of the inquiry, although the police were still at the “scoping” stage of their inquiries and may decide there was no criminal case to answer.
The Sun newspaper sparked a crisis for the broadcaster on Friday night when it accused a male presenter of paying a crack cocaine user “more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images”.
Further claims emerged on Tuesday with BBC News publishing entirely separate allegations that a person in their early 20s had been “threatened” by the same prominent presenter after they met on a dating app.
