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David Walliams faces investigation over alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl

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The Little Britain comedian and best-selling children’s author is facing a police investigation after he was accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

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The bigger story: David Walliams

7 developments since Tue 10 Nov. 3 more since this one.

Tue, 10 Nov, 12:34pm AEDT
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Tue, 10 Nov, 11:00pm AEDT
Morning Mail: David Walliams accused of preying on young women; Greens’ fury at Labor; and a statue mocks Trump
5 newsrooms. Linked by Morning Mail, accuse, women
Tue, 10 Nov, 11:05pm AEDT
David Walliams Accused of Grooming Teen Girls for Sex
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Tue, 10 Nov, 11:15pm AEDT
David Walliams sexual misconduct allegations spark calls for better safeguarding
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Wed, 11 Nov, 2:20am AEDT
David Walliams to be removed from Fing! after allegations
12 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, groom, allegations, women, injunction, predator
Wed, 11 Nov, 8:19am AEDT
Comedian and author David Walliams accused of preying on young women
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Wed, 11 Nov, 4:04pm AEDT
Walliams and Brand were leading UK comics. Now they are part of a reckoning over sexual misconduct
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17 newsroomsCooling

Reports: 35
Newsrooms and sources: 17
Last 3 hours: 1
Last 24 hours

Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 2 in the three before).

First with it: Evening Standard, 24 min before anyone else.

Reported by 17 newsrooms.

Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, PerthNow (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone Australia (the same headline).

Time	Newsroom	Total
11:15pm AEDT	Evening Standard	1
11:39pm AEDT	The New York Times	2
11:40pm AEDT	Variety	3
12:32am AEDT	The West Australian	4
1:21am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	5
1:28am AEDT	The Independent	6
2:12am AEDT	South China Morning Post	7
2:26am AEDT	ABC News	8
3:01am AEDT	Rolling Stone	9
3:08am AEDT	ABC News (Australia)	10
4:17am AEDT	The A.V. Club	11
4:33am AEDT	The Straits Times	12
5:26am AEDT	Daily Express	13
7:20am AEDT	BBC News	14
7:39am AEDT	Mediaweek	15
10:22am AEDT	Daily Mail	16
10:46am AEDT	Pedestrian.TV	17

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Now	18	18
In 1 hours (8:24pm AEDT)	18 to 18	18
In 3 hours (10:24pm AEDT)	18 to 18	18
In 6 hours (1:24am AEDT)	18 to 18	18
In 12 hours (7:24am AEDT)	18 to 19	18
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