Met police ask BBC to pause investigation into suspended presenter

BBC Broadcasting House in London. The director general said the BBC was conducting its inquiries with ‘utmost diligence’. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

The Metropolitan police have asked the BBC to pause its inquiries into a suspended male presenter, while specialist officers decide if there is any justification for a criminal investigation.

The BBC director general, Tim Davie, said the Met had taken control of the inquiry, although the police were still at the “scoping” stage of their inquiries and they may decide they was no criminal case to answer.