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Getty Images Top radio presenter Scott Mills, dismissed by the BBC earlier this week over unspecified allegations of personal misconduct, was interviewed under caution by Metropolitan Police in 2018 in connection with historic sexual offense allegations involving a teenage boy, according to BBC News.
Scotland Yard confirmed that the inquiry — opened in December 2016 after a referral from another force — centered on alleged offenses said to have occurred between 1997 and 2000. Mills, who was in his 40s at the time of the police interview, was never charged. The Crown Prosecution Service reviewed the case and concluded in 2019 that the evidence fell short of the threshold required to pursue prosecution, at which point the investigation was formally closed. Whether the prior police inquiry factored into the BBC‘s decision to cut ties with Mills remains unclear.
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