On Thursday, the court heard that she panicked and began to “feel sick” after her identity was revealed. The BBC criticised the decision to charge Ansari instead of the corporation when he was charged last year. Giving evidence at Sheffield magistrates court, the reporter Rickin Majithia said he got confused between the woman’s real name and a pseudonym she regularly used. In the statement read to the court, the woman said: “I cannot believe this has happened to me. This, Burke argued, meant the name broadcast was not actually that of the victim and therefore she was not identified.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2019 17:07 UTC