Owen is insisting that this crime is unrelated to what the Sun was reporting. Perhaps unrelated in terms of a crime being committed, but not contextually or morally unrelated, since they were happening at the same time.
The public has every right to give a tit that a highly paid man in a position of public trust, being paid with public money, was soliciting sexual content from a much, much, much younger man, whether or not it was technically something that could be criminally prosecuted.
I said it when the Schofield stuff came out - if your only defence of something is that it isn't technically illegal, you're probably not acting from the moral high ground.
Owen is a little gobshite who thinks he shits chocolate ice cream and we all want a lick, but he's not as bright as he thinks he is.