Nicky Campbell notifies police after being falsely identified in BBC scandal

Presenter says he had distressing weekend' after he was wrongly named as man accused of paying teenager for explicit images

Nicky Campbell has made a crime report to the police after being falsely accused of being the BBC male presenter who allegedly paid a vulnerable teenager for sexually explicit images.

Campbell said he had had a distressing weekend" after being falsely named as the household name who it is claimed paid 35,000 over three years to a young person who used the money to fund their crack cocaine habit.