Key Points
The organisation had earlier defended its handling of an allegation that one of its senior presenters paid a young person for explicit images, after acknowledging that it did not flag a complaint to senior management until a tabloid newspaper approached it...
On Monday the BBC reported that it had received a letter from a lawyer acting for the young person in the case, to say the allegations were "rubbish"...
According to a timeline published by the broadcaster, a member of the young person's family walked into a BBC building on May 18 to make a complaint..
The Sun contacted the BBC seven weeks later on July 6 with different allegations, the broadcaster said on Tuesday, and senior management were informed for the first time...
"There was a process of trying to verify the serious complaint (...) but we had not talked to the presenter until we got the allegations on the sixth [July], and we talked to them on the day," Reuters quoted Director General Tim Davie as saying...
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