Scott Mills scandal: BBC warned a year ago and did nothing
The BBC has admitted to the Telegraph that it knew of allegations against Scott Mills almost a year ago but failed to investigate.
The corporation had claimed it terminated the Radio 2 presenter's contract as soon as it learned of the allegations of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy between 1997 and 2000.
But as The Telegraph's associate editor Gordon Rayner tells The Daily T, a former BBC presenter contacted the corporation in May 2025 to say she had received information about alleged “inappropriate communications” involving Mills.
She did not receive a response, and today the…
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