Scott Mills

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His charity has dropped him. The evidence against him must be compelling. The original case couldn't proceed due to the CPS, the police obviously had plenty of evidence.
I have a feeling that he's been a wrong''un for a very long time.
 
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His charity has dropped him. The evidence against him must be compelling. The original case couldn't proceed due to the CPS, the police obviously had plenty of evidence.
I have a feeling that he's been a wrong''un for a very long time.
Charities are the first to cut someone loose!
 
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No opinion on the sacking issue as we don't have much info.

I would like to point out that yes pretty much all of us have a story of snogging and or more with someone older, when out. That is hugely different to something that spans three years. So those who are forgiving that can get in the bin.
 
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It’s all quite a whirlwind so starting a dedicated thread.

Scott has allegedly committed a sexual offence in the mid 90s when he would have been in his 20s and the alleged victim was under 16 years of age.

Scott was questioned under caution 2016/2018 about the alleged offence, he didn’t inform his employer the BBC.

The latest Huw Edwards ITV show prompted the alleged victim to come forward and enquire again about the alleged offence.

What seems to have happened in a matter of days is that Scott has now been immediately fired.

(This depends what news report is referred to)

Huw Edwards liked an article on LinkedIn seemingly suggesting an overreaction by the BBC.
 
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The Mirror obviously has the inside story. I wonder if the victim has gone to them and that’s what kicked all of this off?
 
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Going back pages on this thread, what’s the plaque that’s been removed please?
 
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No opinion on the sacking issue as we don't have much info.

I would like to point out that yes pretty much all of us have a story of snogging and or more with someone older, when out. That is hugely different to something that spans three years. So those who are forgiving that can get in the bin.
Agreed. This wasn’t a one off in a night club so I have no idea why people are making that comparison.
 
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But there is a massive difference is there not between the risk posed by someone that acted with one individual twenty five years ago and someone who was up until his discovery (and afterwards) actively pursuing multiple individuals?

Between someone found guilty in a court and sentenced, and someone who was not charged.

Between viewing dozens of images of child sex abuse including toddlers and someone whom from the facts we have MAY only have entered into a 'consensual' relationship with someone who was fifteen

People are reacting differently because these are very different offender profiles representing very different risks and because not to appreciate this is truly to be part of the mindless, braying, almost always hypocritical mob

People are reacting differently because these are two different things.
I mean differently to when the initial Huw Edward’s first broke, when it was one individual who was reportedly 17 and hadn’t gone to the police
 
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When I was 15 a huge Soap Star (at the time) snogged me, and had a bit of a grope … if I’m being really honest it didn’t bother me then, and doesn’t bother me now … in fact I was quite pleased about the whole thing at the time. Looking back it was wrong, it was the late 80s, things were different.

I also had a number of young gay friends who were hanging round Manchester, nearly all of them had odd relationships with men older than them, who were basically financing thier lifestyles, in a “my TV broke” “well here’s a new one” type way. We never really thought anything of it, just laughed at the older guys for being idiots (just to be clear, this was at the time). The scene in Manchester in the early 90s was wild.

Scott Mills, I do wonder whether these “communications” were to do with people threatening to go to the press. I suppose time will tell.
 
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It makes me go quite cold to think of what skeletons may lurk in my cupboard. I can't think of any, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

If I worked at the BBC I would be feeling very uneasy. But any unease could be assuaged by telling them stuff you think you ought to have told them, I suppose.

Anna Brees: that name rings a bell and not a good one. Isn't she one of those who was running around denying COVID?

ETA yes she is. She's a fruit loop
In your first paragraph, are you actually saying that you might have committed a sexual offence without realising? Come on now!
 
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This reads to me like a separate allegation than the serious sexual offenses he was quizzed by police over in 2016, rather than a case of the original complainant going to a journalist in 2025, as it says that was with regards to "inappropriate communications." I don't think serious sexual offenses would be described as that.

It might explain the BBC's choice of dealing with this if they discovered very recently about the allegations in 2016, then also remembered the other incident last year when there was a different allegation about inappropriate communications which at the time they appear to have shrugged off
I read this as being something the alleged victim had in their possession
I wonder if they DBS people when they are initially employed/contracted and then don't repeat the process. So if any police interviews took place after, they won't know.

There is an update service now for DBS, which wasn't always available. Maybe there was a policy change at the BBC and this was implemented.
Then the BBC ducked uo and they should be open about it. I volunteer fior a children’s hroup and have to be rechecked every 3 years.
 
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Apparently this involves the same person as the original allegation but is different to the allegation made originally. Either that’s weird that the person has changed their story from what initially happened or it involves something else. There are hints that messages were exchanged between him and the alleged victim more recently. If that’s the case then there are questions about how the messaging started and who instigated it.

Because if the alleged victim contacted Mills, he may well have responded negatively towards someone who had made allegations against him which led to a police interview, which is unsurprising and describing it as harassment is a bit unfair it that’s the case.

Also, it doesn’t appear that he was even arrested over the incident so the evidence must have been pretty weak for him not even to be arrested. There’s a question mark over whether he would even be obliged to disclose this to his employer. There isn’t a legal duty to report it.

Apparently he pushed back hard over the allegations which is why they sacked him. But he would if the person was harassing him.

Someone making repeated, different allegations to various sources including the police, the.press and now the BBC over a period of decades does seem like there’s a possibility it could be someone fixated who Mills inadvisidly responded to at some point.
 
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Huge ‘unwise but not illegal’ age gap relationships were certainly looked on differently back in the 90’s into the early 2000’s. In about 99/2000 I worked with a girl the same age as me who was 17 and in a relationship with a man who in his mid 40’s. She’d met him when he was her school bus driver. Nowadays he’d be rightfully seen as an old p.
 
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Can’t stand Tina Daheley. She’s a news reader and should stay as just that, when she does fill ins for Jeremy Vine or whoever she’s absolutely so drab, too serious, a DJ she is not!
 
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