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Originally Posted by GiRTh

He was arrested in November and the BBC admit they knew about it.

It all smacks of a cover up and the BBC claiming they didnt have information that they could easily have requested from the MET.

I'm pretty sure the arrest in November related to allegations that he'd been sending messages of a sexual nature back and forth with a teenager (which I think we can now guess is probably true) but nothing stuck there, and the recent arrest and charge is, technically, a totally separate charge.

They may well have started gathering evidence on these charges back then but they wouldn't have arrested and charged until they had a solid investigation/evidence... they pay rise thing happened somewhere in the middle of that, after the initial arrest but before these charges.