Tim Davie told ‘everyone in this building knows’ who the BBC presenter is

BBC Director General Tim Davie was confronted in an interview on BBC Radio 4 today with a presenter telling him “everyone in this building knows who it is” in relation to the name of the star at the centre of angoing scandal.

When pressed by Sarah Montague if he had spoken to the male presenter, Mr Davie said “personally, no” but that he had been spoken to by a member of senior management.

It’s emerged today the Metropolitan Police have asked the BBC to pause it’s investigation “while the police scope future work” following a meeting with the force.

Mr Davie’s interview comes after the BBC boss earlier ordered a review to “assess how some complaints are red flagged up the organisation” following allegations a high-profile presenter paid a teenager for explicit images.

The corporation has said it made two attempts over several weeks to contact the family who claimed the unnamed presenter paid their child around £35,000 over three years, from the age of 17, for explicit images.

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Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s World At One Mr Davie spoke about the initial complaint made to the corporation about one of its presenters.

Mr Davie added: “In terms of the situation we’ve got on our hands here, I want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues, and legitimate public interest, 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 and every six months that’ll be about 250.

“And you take those, and they are the serious complaints that are coming through, of all different types.”

He said: “The facts are there that very simply the Corporate Investigations Team looked at the log – that is the summary of the call – we have clear records of an interaction that lasted 29 minutes.”

Mr Davie said he accepts it is “absolutely not the right thing” to be speculating about the name of the presenter adding that “some of the malicious stuff online I would condemn.”

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The BBC has released a timeline of events, saying a family member of the young person first complained on May 18, when they went to a BBC building.

The following day the same family member contacted BBC Audience Services and the details of the claims were referred to the BBC’s Corporate Investigations Team, who assessed that the claims did not include an allegation of criminality, but nonetheless merited further investigation.

The BBC said two subsequent attempts to contact the complainant via phone and email were unsuccessful and while the Corporate Investigations Team were due to return to the matter in the coming weeks, no additional attempts to contact the complainant were made after June 6.

The case remained open throughout, the BBC said. The Sun first contacted the BBC on July 6 about the allegations they were due to publish, which was the first time Mr Davie or any executive directors at the BBC were aware of the case.

The claims made by The Sun contained new allegations, that were different from the matters being considered by BBC Corporate Investigations, the corporation said.

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