Huw Edwards, a disgraced BBC News presenter, hasn’t returned his £200, 000 salary to the BBC despite being paid for five months after his arrest.
Staff at the BBC are said to be frustrated that shamed Huw Edwards still hasn’t paid back his £200,000 salary, despite numerous calls. The corporation has announced the loss of 155 roles as part of cost-saving measures, with the decision causing upset among its workers.
Bosses revealed last year that they formally requested the disgraced BBC News presenter to return the wages that he received after his arrest. Edwards pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children and narrowly avoided jail.
Last year, he was given six months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to three offences of making indecent images of children. He was found to have seven Category A indecent images of children – the worst type – as well as 12 Category B, and 22 Category C images.
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Edwards was the BBC’s highest-paying newsreader when he first started out as a trainee in 1984. For the fiscal year 2023/24, he earned between £475, 000 and £479, 999.
The BBC continued to pay Edwards until his resignation five months after his arrest in November 2023. Edwards was reportedly asked to reimburse his salary for that time by the BBC, but the Mirror now knows he still hasn’t paid a penny.
“Everyone is raging about it — firstly at Huw, who is a disgrace, secondly that gutless bosses seem unwilling or unable to do anything about it,” a source told the Sun.
According to a previous statement from the BBC, “Huw Edwards has not returned any money that the BBC paid him in connection with any of his work for the BBC’s commercial operations or the public service.”
The BBC has requested that all of the money Huw Edwards received from the BBC for the months of November 2023 (arrest) and April 2024 (resignation) be returned.
Dr. Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, confirmed in March that the company had been unable to recover any money from former broadcaster Edwards, calling it “quite frustrating.”
When questioned about whether Edwards had been able to recover any money, Dr. Shah replied, “We have not. He seems unwilling, despite our best efforts and repeated requests, to speak up.
We initially believed he might just do the right thing for a change, but he later made the decision not to. Really, I find this to be quite frustrating because I believe he should have done it.
He was still able to do it. It is not appropriate. He knew what he had done and should have given it back to license fee payers right away. The BBC director general also confirmed that the organization had contacted legal counsel and that there was nothing more it could do.
Westminster Magistrates Court heard harrowing details about Edwards’ conversations with convicted paedophile Alex Williams, who sent the once renowned journalist crude images of children between 2018 and 2021.
BBC has reached out to The Mirror for comment.
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Source: Mirror
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