High Court denies anonymised celebrity’s bid to hand BBC statement to police
The Royal Courts of Justice. Picture: sjiong/Flickr A high-profile man who is the subject of an injuncted BBC investigation has lost a bid to have a statement contesting the injunction turned over to police. Lawyers for the anonymous celebrity argued that a statement the BBC provided to argue against the injunction contains information that would help the police decide whether or not to charge him over allegations of sexual misconduct. But on Monday a High Court judge rejected the man’s claim. Mrs Justice Collins-Rice said that if the police want to see the sealed document, as they have indicated they do, they may follow procedures laid down already in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. What is the background to Monday’s ruling in WFZ v BBC? In June last year the High Court granted anonymity to a well-known man, identified as WFZ, who had been accused of sexual misconduct by several women. Although WFZ had been arrested in relation to two allegations of sexual misconduct, and interviewed over a third, he had not then …