How the BBC says it dealt with grievance into presenter accused of paying teenager for sexually specific pictures
The BBC has launched its personal timeline of occasions over the allegations considered one of its presenters paid an adolescent for sexually specific pictures.
The broadcaster says it first acquired a grievance by way of a member of the family of {the teenager} in May and that it was instantly referred to its inner investigations group.
The company says it didn’t info its presenter for seven weeks about the claims.
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It additionally says it has paused its personal investigation on the request of the Metropolitan Police yesterday whereas officers “scope future work” associated to the grievance.
It comes as the BBC’s director-general Tim Davie faced the media today because the controversy deepens.
Here’s the BBC’s timeline of occasions:
18 May
The complainant (a member of the family) visits a BBC constructing in an try and make a grievance concerning the behaviour of a BBC presenter
19 May
The similar complainant contacts BBC Audience Services and the small print are referred to the BBC’s Corporate Investigations Team. The group asses the data.
The evaluation made is that – on the premise of the data supplied – the grievance doesn’t embrace an allegation of criminality, however nonetheless deserves additional investigation.
On the identical day, the investigation group emails the complainant stating how severely the BBC takes the difficulty and seeks extra info to confirm the claims being made.
The BBC says its group receives no response to this e-mail and that checks are additionally made to confirm the id of the complainant, one thing it describes as normal process.
6 June
A telephone name is made by the investigations group to the cell quantity supplied by the complainant, however the name doesn’t join.
No extra makes an attempt to contact the complainant are made after 6 June, nonetheless the case stays open all through.
6 July
The Sun newspaper contacts the BBC by way of the Corporate Press Office of allegations regarding the BBC presenter.
The BBC says it turns into clear at this level that the supply of the claims is similar household as approached by the BBC on 18 and 19 May.
This is the primary time that the Director General or any govt administrators on the BBC are conscious of the case.
The BBC says the claims made by The Sun include new allegations which might be completely different to the issues being thought-about by the BBC Corporate Investigations group.
A BBC incident administration group, involving senior BBC executives and the Director General, is launched to guide the response to the claims and the appearing chairman is up to date.
A senior supervisor holds the primary dialog with the presenter to make him conscious of the claims being outlined by The Sun, and it’s agreed that the presenter stays off air whereas the matter is taken into account.
7 July
The BBC’s Corporate Investigations group contacts the complainant once more.
A BBC’s Serious Case Management Framework (SCMF) is initiated and the investigation being undertaken by the Corporate Investigations Team is introduced into the SCMF, which is chaired by a Human Resources Director.
The BBC additionally makes contact with the Metropolitan Police in regard to the matter.
8-9 July
The complainant sends the BBC some materials associated to the grievance.
The BBC points an replace to employees and the media and confirms it has suspended the presenter.
10 July
The BBC meets with the Metropolitan Police to report the matter and focus on the best way to progress the investigation.
The power requests that the BBC pauses its investigations into the allegations whereas they scope future work.