
Naming, shaming and a second allegation
The News Agents
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The BBC's Breaking of a Second Young Person's Allegation About a BBC Presenter
The BBC itself is saying now that a second young person has made allegations about the same BBC presenter. They allegedly met via a dating app and there was apparently an aggressive and bullying message thread between the presenter and the individual. What we don't know is the context of that. It has been suggested that perhaps the young person was saying that they would out or make public the presenter's name, and at that point things got pretty nasty and pretty vitriolic. But if you like a second thread about the same person, what this does not do is mention any kind of criminal behaviour. And I think that's really important because the Sun story suggested criminality. There has been no evidence on that. So
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