Let’s talk about BBC

[Beebo]

New evidence I'm guessing...

The allegations date back to 1997. When he was a young man.
He was questioned by police in 2018 and charges were dropped.

 

[First Aspect]

This has all the hallmarks of a classic BBC nothing to see here, until it is too late, while allowing someone with a whiff about them to become so high profile and gratuitously paid in the interim that it ends in a commensurately sized scandal.

 

[Beebo]

This has all the hallmarks of a classic BBC nothing to see here, until it is too late, while allowing someone with a whiff about them to become so high profile and gratuitously paid in the interim that it ends in a commensurately sized scandal.

Exactly that.
Get rid of him when the police first started investigating.
Not once he’s fronting the biggest radio show in the UK.
It has echoes of Mandelson, in that this wasn’t a secret, but has now suddenly become a hot potato.

 

[Ian H]

Could it be the new DG is ensuring he starts with a clean sheet?

 

[First Aspect]

Could it be the new DG is ensuring he starts with a clean sheet?

No. I almost guarantee that if we fast forward a few weeks we will learn of more recent and/or more serious allegations, and that "everyone knew what he was like".

The cultural issue the BBC has is that it is culturally so star struck that the stars operate more or less in consequence free zones for years on end.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Sounds like another Phillip Schofield scenario. Whether he did anything illegal or not, his DJ career is probably over now

 

[AuroraSaab]

Along those lines I did read a suggestion that it's in part related to the changing dates around the age of consent. ie it would be legal now, which may have influenced the police decision that it wasn't in the public interest to prosecute. The full details will come out eventually no doubt.

 

[Psamathe]

I don't know the rules about what the Police can say about any arrest/change but I was surprised when they so quickly came out with details about this given there was no prosecution, no charge, no action. I suspect the Police giving out more details has further trashed any possibility for any future work possibilities for him.