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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd North of England editor

MP accuses BBC of ‘unacceptable’ lack of support for women in DJ stalking case

Alex Belfield in bright shirt outside court
A BBC internal investigation has been requested into why the women’s complaints about Alex Belfield’s harassment were ‘ignored’ for almost a decade. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

The BBC is guilty of a “miscarriage of justice” over its “unacceptable” and total lack of support for female employees who were harassed for 10 years by the jailed stalker Alex Belfield, an MP has said.

Barry Sheerman, the Labour MP for Huddersfield, said the BBC’s treatment of the women – who include his constituent the BBC Radio Leeds veteran Liz Green – revealed an “incompetent and remote” organisation that failed to understand or care what was happening to its employees.

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