The BBC sacked Scott Mills after learning the teenage boy who accused him of serious sexual offences in the 1990s was a child at the time.
The corporation’s current bosses only learned that the alleged victim had been under 16 in ‘recent weeks’.
This is why current management ‘took action’ and fired him just six days after he was hauled from his Radio 2 Breakfast Show last Tuesday, a BBC News report this morning claims.
It came after the Daily Mail revealed how sources within BBC said the unnamed man may have gone to the corporation about Mills due to the huge publicity surrounding Martin Clunes starring in Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards.
Mills’s former bosses bosses are said to be going through records and speaking to staff about what they knew about the Met Police investigation that saw Mills interviewed under caution in 2018. The case was dropped in 2019 due to a lack of evidence.
On Wednesday night, in an extraordinary statement issued via his lawyers to the Daily Mail, the 53-year-old broke his silence to admit he was the subject of the investigation and did not deny the allegations.
The full statement read: ‘The recent announcement that I am no longer contracted to the BBC has led to the publication of rumour and speculation. In response to this the Metropolitan Police has made a statement, which I confirm relates to me.
‘An allegation was made against me in 2016 of a historic sexual offence which was the subject of a police investigation in which I fully cooperated and responded to in 2018.
‘As the police have stated, a file of evidence was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service, which determined that the evidential threshold had not been met to bring charges.
‘Since the investigation related to an allegation that dates back nearly 30 years and the police investigation was closed seven years ago, I hope that the public and the media will understand and respect my wish not to make any further public comment on this matter.
‘I wish to thank from the bottom of my heart all those who have reached out to me with kindness, my former colleagues and my beloved listeners, who I greatly miss.’
Scott Mills broke his silence to admit he was the subject of the investigation and did not deny the allegations
