Presenter Tony Livesey has near BBC Radio 5 Live aft 16 years astatine the station, the corp has announced.
Livesey stepped backmost from his weekday precocious nighttime speech amusement past period pursuing allegations made against his erstwhile paper brag David Sullivan.
He had antecedently worked arsenic editor-in-chief of Sullivan's Daily and Sunday Sport publications.
Several women person accused Sullivan, a billionaire businessman and West Ham co-owner, of abusing his powerfulness and preying connected them for sex, successful immoderate cases erstwhile they were teenagers. Sullivan has powerfully denied the allegations.
The claims against Sullivan were made successful a associated probe by the Times and BBC Panorama.
The BBC antecedently said Livesey had asked to instrumentality a interruption from presenting his programme portion the issues raised by the probe were being examined.
One alleged unfortunate said that Livesey had arranged a gathering betwixt her and Sullivan successful 1999.
Livesey said helium had "no recollection" of introducing the young pistillate to Sullivan and that it was "not part" of his occupation to bash so.
He added that helium had "great sympathy for a pistillate who whitethorn person go a victim", but rejected immoderate proposition that helium had played "any relation whatsoever successful that scenario" and said helium recovered the allegation "abhorrent".
In an email sent to 5 Live unit connected Monday morning, the station's controller Heidi Dawson said helium had present decided to leave.
"Tony has asked maine to walk connected his heartfelt acknowledgment to the superb colleagues astatine 5 Live who helium has had the pleasance of moving with implicit the years.
"I cognize galore of you person besides truly enjoyed moving with Tony, and we privation him good for each his aboriginal endeavours."
The presenter worked for the BBC from 2006, the twelvemonth helium near the newspaper, appearing connected 5 Live from 2010 onwards including helming its drivetime show.
He won vigor awards - ARIA and APAs - for his reporting connected however it feels to suffer your parent arsenic a child, and an ARIAS Gold grant aft helium was asked by the precocious Dame Deborah James to behaviour her last interview.
His topical three-hour programme was broadcast connected 5 Live from Monday to Thursday, featuring interviews and telephone calls from listeners.
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