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		</div><p>According To BBC reporters:</p>
<p>A young person has told BBC News they felt threatened by the BBC presenter at the centre of a row over payment for sexually explicit photos. The individual in their early 20s was first contacted anonymously by the male presenter on a dating app.</p>
<p>They say they were put under pressure to meet up but never did.<br />
When the young person hinted online they might name the presenter, they were sent abusive, expletive-filled messages.</p>
<p>Speaking to BBC News, the young person &#8211; who has no connection to the person at the centre of the Sun&#8217;s story about payments for photos &#8211; said they had been scared by the power the presenter held.</p>
<p>They said the threats made in the messages &#8211; which have been seen and verified by BBC News &#8211; had frightened them, and they remain scared. The new allegations of menacing and bullying behaviour by the high-profile presenter raise fresh questions about his conduct.</p>
<p>BBC News has contacted the presenter directly and via his lawyer but has received no response to the latest allegations.</p>
<p>After the two had first connected on the dating app, the conversation moved to other platforms.<br />
At this stage, the presenter revealed his identity and told the young person not to tell anyone.<br />
Later, the young person alluded online to having contact with a BBC presenter, and implied they would name him at some point.</p>
<p>The presenter reacted by sending a number of threatening messages.<br />
BBC News has been able to verify that the messages were sent from a phone number belonging to the presenter.</p>
<p>The young person&#8217;s online post has also been seen by BBC News.</p>
<p>While the individual has spoken to BBC News, they have not made a complaint to the BBC corporate investigations unit which is looking into allegations.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters in Lithuania, the prime minister&#8217;s press secretary said she had not seen these new allegations but urged any victims to come forward to get support and have their claims investigated.</p>
<p>Claims about the unnamed BBC presenter first surfaced in the Sun newspaper on Friday night.<br />
The paper quoted a mother as saying her child, now 20, had used the money paid for explicit photos to fund a crack cocaine habit, and worried they could &#8220;wind up dead&#8221;.</p>
<p>A lawyer for the young person has since said the accusations were &#8220;rubbish&#8221; but the family are standing by the account.</p>
<p>The BBC has been defending the handling of its own investigation into the allegations.<br />
At a press conference, BBC director general Tim Davie said the presenter was not spoken to until last Thursday &#8211; seven weeks after the first complaint was made to the corporation.</p>
<p>Two attempts had been made to contact the family involved, before the Sun approached them with new claims last week, the BBC said.</p>
<p>The BBC has now paused its own investigation into what happened while police examine the matter.<br />
The presenter, who has been suspended, is not being named because of concerns about defamation and breaching his privacy.</p>
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