According to reports that the BBC received a complaint about disgraced news anchor Huw Edwards more than ten years prior to his sentencing,
A dossier of emails sent to the BBC has reportedly revealed that a complaint was made against shamed newsreader Huw Edwards all the way back in 2012.
Last September, the Welsh broadcaster was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after he admitted charges of making indecent images of children.
Following the release of the report, Huw was alleged to have paid a young person for sexually explicit photos.
Now, according to The Sunday Times, an email was sent to BBC director-general Tim Davie an hour before Huw was sentenced in September, which claimed that a complaint was made about Huw all the way back in 2012, in the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
A former BBC employee provided the email, which the Times obtained under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. According to them, they allegedly explained how a complaint against the newsreader had been filed ten years prior to his suspension.
According to the report, it stated, “The reason for my email to you is just to point out that there is a good chance that this complaint was documented somewhere but that it was (from memory) deemed non-actionable.
They added that the complaint was “Not necessarily a criminal allegation” and that “I have no real details I can offer you – other than it exists.”
Tim allegedly responded with an email thanking the former employee and telling the team he would share it with the team three minutes later.
The Times requested all of Huw’s’ senior BBC executives’ email correspondence, which dates back to the day he was sentenced. Six months later, they were given access to nearly 200 emails and the information.
Huw allegedly offered to repay some of his salary to the BBC between the time of his arrest and his resignation from the broadcaster according to the emails.
However, Huw is yet to repay any of the money back, with a BBC spokesperson confirming to Mirror, “The BBC believes that Huw Edwards should return the money paid to him by the BBC, covering the period between his arrest and his resignation.”
Huw, who was the presenter of the BBC News At Ten for two decades, was known as the corporation’s highest-paid newsreader but later found himself at the centre of a scandal when The Sun claimed that a presenter had given payments to a young person for sexually explicit images.
Not naming Huw at first, many presenters such as Rylan Clark and Jeremy Vine were quick to clear up that the reports were not aimed at them.
More than a month after the news broke, TV producer Vicky Flind, Huw’s wife, named him as the person responsible for the reports and issued a statement claiming he was “suffering from serious mental health issues.”
Vicky described it as “difficult days” for their family and described how Huw had recently been treated for severe depression.
Source: Mirror
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