That the victim did not report the incident is immaterial. Victims of bullying often do not report being bullied.
Clarkson physically and verbally assaulted a colleague. The BBC had no choice but to take the action they did. If they did not sack Clarkson, then they would be open to being sued every time they tried to discipline staff because they would not be consistently and fairly implementing HR policy.
This may well be the demise of Top Gear, but anyone blaming the BBC is way off mark. There is only one person to blame for this and it is the bullying, boorish thug that carried out the assault.
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