Whatever else we can say about the BBC presenter allegations – and at the moment, there is a great deal that remains unknown – it is clear that the story is a lot more complicated than initial reports suggested.
Since Friday evening, when the Sun newspaper – owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK – first published allegations that a “household name” had paid thousands of pounds to a 17-year-old in return for sexual photos, the story has dominated headlines, convulsed social media and even drawn in the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, who called the claims “very serious and concerning”.
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