To think this is overkill (Huw Edwards)

The BBC has allegedly been covering up for Paedophiles for a great many years it’s about time they took some kind of solid action. Get the filthy deviants off our screens with immediate effect. They are vermin and dangerous to all children, our children. For me there is no place for these perverts in our society. Jail is way too easy for them. Here’s hoping he is dealt some prisoner justice once he’s locked away.

Do you have any idea how terrifying it is to be a child and be sexually abused and raped by an adult? You seem to ignore the most awful suffering and pain to a small child - so why not focus on that rather than music taste my friend?

Could this to be with royalties? People are pissed off enough about him being paid while suspended, I doubt the BBC would like to admit paying him each time this is rerun.

They aren't linked in any way

It's an excuse for people who already have this agenda for quite other reasons. . You can't expect them to be consistent...

After you got the first illegal photo any normal person would block and go to the police

@Hummingbird75
If you want to support paedophiles and listen to them, that says more about you, perhaps raise the bar? Your standards are gutter level.

Your responding with gratuitous insults says a lot about you. You don't think adults should decide for themselves? That way lies fascism.

So I don't reach for the off switch when The Stones early recordings come on the radio. And you think that's a low bar.

OK. But maybe reaching for the off switch would be hysterical over reaction.

Removing these vile pieces of shit from general public view isn't rewriting history. It's all out there for people to see what they did, online, books, magazines, news reports.

Nobody is getting rid of all traces of evidence that they existed, they are taking them out of places of privilege.

I don't want to see statues or plaques for sex offenders.
I don't want to flick through the tv channels and hear Huw in the background of a tv show.
I don't want Rolf popping up bending his stupid board or Jim puffing away on a cigar with his creepy fucking noncey face.
They don't deserve to grace TV screens. It is privileged lifestyle to be a celeb in the limelight and to earn royalties from their work. They can fuck off.

I do want to be able to access footage of them being dragged through the courts and bundled in a truck to prison. I do want all of their actions being laid out in black and white so we all know what a dirty bastard they are/were. And that is all out there for anyone who chooses to learn about these types of people.

And to those saying he didn't ask for illegal images, he still had a good look and didn't report what he saw, and continued to ask for and receive very shady images.

This!

Also I wouldn't be affiliated with other paedophiles who were comfortable enough to have access and share photos as such unless I was also in the same boat.

Of course he knew what he was doing, and I am sure there is a lot more that we don't know.

What is the point of erasing his work?

Would you want ‘The Pianist’ to be permanently erased too?

We can argue about whether he is a paedophile or not, but the main thrust is, whatever the crime, do you erase art because of the nature of the creator, or does that just add another facet through which the work is viewed?

This modern trend is a bit like ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’. Where does it stop? Do we dburn down the Vatican due to their laxity on priestly paedophilia?

Now that is OTT.

What has the licence fee got to do with an employee issue? In the same way we pay taxes that fund the salaries of NHS, the Police, school teachers, for example, in trusted and safeguarding positions, who are convicted of similar crimes, actually much, much worse crimes than HE.

I can see the point of 'recasting' any recent and unfinished children's/school/educational material but I don't think they should dub over the rest. Where does it end? He was a broadcaster for decades - are they going to dub over everything? He covered a range of topics including crimes against children - we shouldn't pretend those things never happened because of what he did in other circumstances.

It's coz these sickos are everywhere

I am shocked by the minimising of a paedophile. Normal people don't ignore photos of children being abused. These were not photos that could be explained away, they are often the most serious categories.

As a survivor of SA I am disgusted and feel violated again by the excuses and minimising on this and other threads. No wonder so many of these vile people get away with it.

And to those references to David Tennant you are equally vile to conjecture his support to his child to sexual child abuse and I would consider it defamation and or slander, disgusting and so disrespectful to SA survivors. How dare you equate them, your hate id gone so far you don't have self awareness left. I hope action is taken swiftly against you.

I'm not defending him in anyway, he shouldn't have been involved in that conversation, shouldn't have continued it, should have reported images if he was really horrified like anyone decent would have been.

But he isn't saying now "oh but I said not to send them", that is literally what was written in the messages that the CPS have. It's not in doubt that he said it.
I agree though that saying it and then continuing the conversation is disgusting, and doesn't suggest a huge amount of sincerity in terms of actually not wanting certain images.

Totally agree. Loved the thick of it when I watched it recently but when I saw Chris Langham I was like “wait wasn’t he found to be a nonce?” Husband was said yeah and that’s why the character disappeared suddenly.

HE literally only had a cameo in that episode of Dr Who seems overkill to remove it completely, especially if they’re going to continue showing all
episodes of things like the thick of it. Which I think they should because it’s brilliant.

I disagree given it is the TAX PAYER that has been funding Edwards in particular.

If you want to support paedophiles and listen to them, that says more about you, perhaps raise the bar? Your standards are gutter level.

I also think it’s a mistake. He’s all over the Queen’s death announcement footage plus numerous other historically significant events. Are they going to remove them too?
I would argue those things don’t belong to the BBC they belong to the nation as they are our collective history.
BBC being idiotic again

And here's the OTT. Another juicy stick to beat the BBC with for those who don't actually give one for justice. Being arrested and charged doesn't make you guilty.

God forbid, if you had kids and found out someone had the most degrading level of indecent photos of them on your phone. Would you still want to see their face on TV or any show ? He is a pedophile and it's a good shout from the BBC to do that. More disturbing to think how many more of them are there that we watch daily on our screens.

You are an apologist pure and simple.

We do NOT want to hear his fucking voice, we do not want to see his fucking face anywhere.

He knowingly continued communicating and receiving images of CATEGORY A images of children as young as seven being sexually abused and tortured.

If we ever see him again it will be a day too soon.

And 40 images is a HUGE amount of abuse and evidence. Have you considered how the victims of that abuse feel about it?

You cannot rewrite history.

People can choose to watch or not watch something with someone they find deplorable involved. We are grown ups and don't need to be nannied.

Dylan Thomas was a wife beater. I still love his poetry. Life isn't simple sometimes.

Bill Wyman admitted to sex with an underage girl. I still listen to the Stones.

I understand those who don't but adults should be allowed to make up their own minds.

It's a rubbish episode anyway.

But this is why I have kept DVDs of all my very favourite series - in case a minor bit part actor gets cancelled and takes out an important plot episode. I can't remember HE's role in this episode, but I don't think it was large. Fortunately nothing else of significance to the wider plot happens.

If he was in any way innocent, he would have reported the sender to the police straight away and made every effort to block this person!