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BBC ‘deeply sorry’ for not protecting female employees from email abuse by ex-presenter


Former Radio Leeds host Alex Belfield was jailed in 2022 for stalking four people including Jeremy Vine

The BBC has issued a “full and unreserved apology” to four female former employees after admitting it did not do enough to protect them from a local radio presenter who was later jailed for stalking Jeremy Vine.

Alex Belfield, a former host on BBC Radio Leeds, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in 2022 after being found guilty of waging a stalking campaign against four people, including Vine. The corporation has now said that it is “deeply sorry” to four women who had also been subjected to a campaign of abuse by Belfield over several years.

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Publish date : 2025-03-12 19:29:00

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