The male presenter allegedly sent angry and abusive messages to the person via a dating app. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON – A crisis at the BBC over the conduct of a senior staff member deepened on Tuesday with a report that a second person had come forward with allegations that the unnamed male staff member had sent angry and abusive messages to the person via a dating app.
With the allegations piling up, but with many questions still unanswered, the BBC appeared to be under siege. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on his way to a Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, said the reports of payments by the staff member were “shocking and concerning” and called for a swift, vigorous investigation.
But the complaints were not relayed to him or other top BBC managers until late last week, he said, when they were about to be reported by a London tabloid, The Sun. He said he had not yet spoken to the staff member. “These are clearly damaging to the BBC,” he said in an interview with BBC Radio 4. “It’s not a good situation.”
Under British law, the age of consent is 16, but it is a crime to take, make, share or possess indecent images of anyone younger than 18.
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