Plenty of things which are legal are wrong - such as grooming a teenager, and sleeping with him while he's still a child.

Phil was obviously careful to visibly stay within the letter of the law, but whether or not he did anything wrong is apparently open to interpretation.

I am in Spain for half the year, hardly :laugh:

how has a 20-year-old crack addict hired a top legal team?

are we all daft?

Ok Charlie big bollox

It’s a different story when your in that courtroom

And for people that don’t know

Most people are in court for

Council tax debt
No Tv license
No Fishing lincence

The same way phils young lover had a top lawyer

And yes you are daft as a brush

did the teen even know who the perp was

17 year olds dont watch bbc news?

I believe it, always go after the easy targets

uh oh, don't think this is over by a long chalk, doesn't look like the parents are about to back down and who can blame them

If the Sun have any evidence to back up the allegations, then this could go to a whole new level. It becomes a criminal case automatically if the alleged perp used coercion to try and shut the story down. It looks very like that is what has just gone down

GB news state parents are standing by their claims

Meh, he might know the presenter as "that bloke mum watches on the news while I scroll through" ... Insta/TikTok/Twitter/Face-one-that-kids-don't-use :laugh:

Presenter story marked by 'dangerous absence of facts', says ex-BBC executive
A former BBC news executive has claimed that a story alleging a presenter paid a teenager for sexual photos has a “dangerous absence of facts”.

Tim Luckhurst told the broadcaster: “This story has been marked from the beginning by a dangerous absence of facts, at every stage there have been more questions than answers and that remains the case tonight.

“The emphasis has shifted - now it seems that the parents may have raised concerns with The Sun concerns which did not directly reflect the concerns of their child.

“But at no stage in this story have we seen the full details that The Sun purports to have.

“I am beginning to suspect that the problem is that the facts are not entirely clear to The Sun, they’re not clear to the BBC either.”

My purely speculative speculation would be;

It happened as described

He didn't want to report it

Mum reported it

He's being paid to deny the whole thing.


Mess :joker:

Not that I'd ever encourage illegal activity and of course anyone who watches live telly should have a license until they're abolished...

But...

I don't have a TV license (legitimately - we don't watch live TV or have a sky disk/aerial etc plugged in) and haven't had one for about 5 or 6 years now.

Like I said, it's legitimate - we don't watch live TV, just streaming and gaming in this house. HOWEVER... No one has ever checked. Not ever. Not a sniff.

that's what i think, it's not a small time lawyer that is representing the kid. It really stinks pretty bad

I've not had a TV licence for years.....never had a knock at the door, or even a letter.

same

BBC star accused of paying teen for explicit photos
 

Don’t they have all the tv licence records stored digitally and simply drive around with a radar equipped van or something ??

That’s the old story that was circulated years ago - think they showed warning adverts on telly


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that is such a fake news view

Well if they have, they're literally years out of date. Like I said, it's been years and I've never even had as much as an email or letter, let alone a visit from a radar van. Something like 1% end up in court, I'll take my chances.

When my son moved into his flat, he kept getting notices, in BIG RED LETTERS, we are coming, DONT IGNORE, he just binned them, no one ever came, 5 years in now ...

They have records of which addresses have a license. They definitely do not have "radar vans" :joker:. Completely debunked as a myth. They have to come into your house and physically check, and you don't need one just have a TV, it has to be being used to watch old-fashioned outdated live boomer TV.