Claims made against a BBC presenter are "rubbish", a lawyer representing the young person involved in the claims has said. In a letter reported by BBC News At Six on Monday evening the lawyer for the young person wrote "nothing inappropriate or unlawful" had taken place between their client and the BBC presenter, who has not been named.
The BBC reports that the letter claimed that the young person sent a denial to The Sun on Friday evening saying there was "no truth to it" and that allegations reported by the newspaper over the weekend were "rubbish" but that the "inappropriate article" was still published.
Last Friday The Sun reported that a male BBC presenter is accused of paying a young person £35,000 for explicit images. It claimed the unnamed presenter first received images from the young person when they were 17. The initial allegations came from the person's mother, who told the newspaper she saw a picture of the presenter on her child’s phone “sitting on a sofa in his house in his underwear." The BBC confirmed on Sunday that the presenter had been suspended and that it was investigating the claims.
