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This will be a prime counter-point to people that claim RT is basically the BBC - kudos to the BBC shining a light on this and taking on the government in court
by mzs 4y ago
This will be a prime counter-point to people that claim RT is basically the BBC - kudos to the BBC shining a light on this and taking on the government in court to make it happen.
>A video shows the man threatening to kill the woman and attacking her with a machete.
>The foreign national cannot be named, despite evidence he is a threat to women, after the government took the BBC to court to block publication.
>Evidence shows that he is a right-wing extremist with a violent past.
>In an unprecedented legal battle, the corporation argued that women had a right to know his identity and it would protect potential victims from harm.
>But the BBC successfully resisted the government's attempt to stop publication of the wide-ranging investigation.
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>X was arrested, charged with assaulting Beth and appeared in court. However, while he was at court, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped the case.
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>We obtained writings in the which X boasted about severely sexually exploiting women - using language that is too offensive to repeat.
>In other writings, he expressed approval for a young girl being raped and murdered.
>He openly joined a site, looking for British women, under an alias used for his MI5 work. Consistent with this, Beth says he had described searching online for women to exploit.
>Given the BBC was able to establish that X had a history of violence and abuse, MI5 should, similarly, have been aware.
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>The warning signs displayed by X are stark. Both of the women we interviewed think he is capable of murder.
>But, when we put our findings about X to the government, it took us to the High Court, trying to stop this story being made public.
>The court legally prevented us from naming X, because of an apparent risk to him from other extremists