BBC presenter row: Family contacted just twice

The BBC made conscionable 2 attempts to interaction the household of the young idiosyncratic astatine the centre of the presenter enactment aft their ailment was made - contempt judging it to beryllium precise serious.

A caller timeline from the corp says an email was sent followed by a telephone that failed to connect.

The presenter was spoken to 7 weeks aft the archetypal complaint, the nighttime earlier the Sun published the claims.

The archetypal study has been denied by a lawyer for the young person.

The Sun person not enactment up anyone for interrogation regarding the BBC's timeline and did not straight respond to questions enactment to them.

There person been questions implicit however the BBC has handled the complaint.

The corporation's director-general Tim Davie addressed immoderate of the issues portion speaking connected Tuesday arsenic portion of the work of the BBC's Annual Report.

The allegations, archetypal reported by the Sun, are that the presenter paid a young idiosyncratic for explicit photos - however, the young person's lawyer has disputed this mentation of events.

The household of the young idiosyncratic archetypal contacted the BBC connected 18 May, erstwhile they attended a BBC gathering to marque the ailment successful person.

A time later, connected 19 May the complainant contacted the BBC's Audiences Services, with the allegation passed to the BBC's Corporate Investigations Team.

Mr Davie was asked astir the quality betwixt the ailment connected 19 May, and the ailment made successful The Sun story.

He said made a summary of the call, which "did not see an allegation of criminality - but was precise serious."

The household subordinate past did not respond to an email sent by the corporation, the BBC said successful an updated timeline released connected Tuesday afternoon.

On 6 June, a travel up telephone telephone was made to the fig provided by the household subordinate to the BBC's Corporate Investigations Team, but "this telephone did not connect".

"No further attempts to interaction the complainant were made aft 6 June, nevertheless the lawsuit remained unfastened throughout," the timeline added.

A elder manager lone held a speech with the presenter progressive successful the allegations connected 6 July, 7 weeks aft the archetypal ailment was made.

This was to marque them "aware of the claims being outlined by the Sun" successful their communicative published the pursuing day, the BBC said.

The BBC made interaction with the constabulary regarding the ailment connected 7 July.

In a connection connected 9 July, the BBC said it had suspended the presenter successful question.

This timeline of events conflicts with successful the Sun's archetypal study that they did not ringing the household aft the archetypal ailment was made.

The step-father of the young idiosyncratic linked to the enactment is quoted successful a caller nonfiction arsenic saying allegations were enactment to the BBC "for an hour", but successful a study connected Monday, it was stated: "The household accidental no-one from the corp rang them for a due interrogation aft the archetypal complaint."

In a connection released connected Tuesday, the BBC said it had been asked to intermission its investigations into the allegations made successful the Sun portion the constabulary assessed the situation.

The corp added that it had published an update to the timeline of events to code questions connected however the ailment was initially managed, mounting retired cardinal dates and adding immoderate much information.

"The BBC has processes and protocols for receiving accusation and managing complaints erstwhile they are archetypal made. We ever instrumentality these matters highly earnestly and question to negociate them with the due work of care," the connection read.

At a virtual property briefing relating to the publishing of the BBC's Annual Report, director-general Tim Davie confirmed helium has asked "for a review", which volition beryllium internal, of however things are reddish flagged.

He said: "Any matter of this quality is serious. Trust is perfectly cardinal to the BBC. It is excessively aboriginal to accidental however this impacts the BBC successful presumption of trust."