Media law experts have explained why there have been no reports identifying the suspended BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager for explicit pictures.
Allegations broke out that a so-called household name paid more than £35,000 in exchange for sexual images. Mark Stephens, a media law expert and partner at Howard Kennedy, said there has been a major change to how these types of stories are reported after Sir Cliff Richard won a privacy case against the BBC.
Furthermore, the Supreme Court has previously ruled that a person being investigated for a crime generally has a "reasonable expectation of privacy". This is entrenched in a privacy claim by a US citizen known only as ZXC, a chief executive of a regional division company.
