Who do you think is the BBC presenter who has been suspended?

[broomers]

I don't have twitter and haven't seen any theories as to who it is, I'm presuming a man due to the figure outline being used in the press:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66140356.amp

Good point

the presenter is a man
the youth's gender has not been revealed
someone upthread called them a sexworker
they are now a drug addict, having been given £35,000

Ah OK. I love the BBC, or at least rhe idea of the BBC, but they can't keep messing this up.

What changes at 10pm on a saturday night - access to the sunday papers, and I expect the man to be named in tomorrows papers

Or it could be that there is a question of whether the person will apply for an injunction.

so what happens is Sunday Paper writes to Presenter and says we know it's you, this is our story, we are going to publish on Sunday do you have any comment to make about this

Lawyers for presenter write back and say hang on, we are taking instructions and may apply for an injunction.

Paper says if you want an injunction you need to tell us/make application by [time - 9pm/10pm] as then we will go to print and you will have to pay the costs of recall/destruction of a newspaper.

clock ticks down and either they make an application, usually heard out of hours by an emergency judge - in which case the story is put on hold until the application is decided -publishing if there is an outstanding application would be contempt of court

or they don't in which case the paper will publish. and the front pages are normally made available to new reviewers the night before unless there is a super exclusive which may sometimes be second edition so that other papers have less chance to copy the story.

Clock is ticking for the lawyers to stop him being named in all of Sundays tabloids!

@mumsnet what are you trying to achieve by allowing this post to continue? Allowing a bunch of women who have had a few too many Pinots to lay the blame at the feet of anyone they personally dislike from the BBC? You are so quick to delete other posts. What are your ulterior motives here?

Bubblesoffun this is an internet forum - and this is today's hot topic. You didn't need to click on, you could just scroll on

And no, sorry I don’t work for the BBC, I don’t even live in the uk .

I haven't seen a comment blaming anyone for ages. Any I did see today have been deleted.
Report them if you see them.

Ever heard of deformation?

Who’s deformed?

Yes, but I don't know what it has to do with this topic

@WhisperingAutistic
@Coralsunset
Defamation.
So clever aren’t we.

@Addymontgomeryfan
Clock is ticking for the lawyers to stop him being named in all of Sundays tabloids!

Well we don't know. The clock may be stopped as we speak. An application may have been made already. If it has, there is a mechanism by which all the media are put on notice - so until it is determined by a judge no one would publish it because of the contempt risk.

I posted above about how the law now say there is a right of privacy prior to charge even for people who have been arrested - so here where there are just allegations and no arrest, the same would apply potentially unless there was a big public interest that was more important. For untested allegations at an early stage probably unlikely in law.

The Sun have another story out
www.thesun.co.uk/news/22983480/bbc-star-child-pics-pants/

There’s no way it will come out at 10pm. His lawyers will have been all over this all day.

“He even sent a picture of his desk at work to my child which I saw.”
He has a desk? Newsreader?

DJ?

Quite possibly!
Intriguing

Newsreader who has a variety of other roles.

Sitting here with my caffeine free diet coke. I recalled a super injunction that still hasn't been lifted to this day. Apparently it's costing a lot of money to keep it up.

It isn’t just news readers that have desks. Anyone that is presenting or hosting anything long term will have a desk in an office. I used to work at a well known radio station and all DJ’s had desks in a massive communal office.

If The Sun have the evidence, why don't they just print it?

The Sun are acting as if they don't believe what the parents are saying. An injunction cannot be used to cover up a crime. There is nothing to prevent The Sun naming names if they have evidence of the online transfers, video, photographs, etc.

The only part The Sun seem to believe is that a complaint has been made and the BBC are investigating.

Yes, I wondered what legal mechanisms can be used to prevent publication where there is actual evidence but I think a super injunction will do it?

Poor tess.