Phillip said: "My overwhelming concern is and has always been for the wellbeing of the victim and his family. I hope that their privacy will now be respected.
“If any crime had ever been confessed to me by my brother, I would have acted immediately to protect the victim and their family.
“These are despicable crimes, and I welcome the guilty verdicts.
As far as I am concerned, I no longer have a brother.”
^^post trial media statement
In his statement to Exeter Crown Court, Phillip Schofield said he was washing up when his brother stood behind him and said, "you are going to hate me for what I am about to say".
"I said there was nothing he could say that would make me hate him. Then he said that he and [the boy] had time together and that last year they had watched porn... and [masturbated]".
"I turned and said, 'What did you just say?' He said it was last year and we were alone together.
"Tim said it was just this once. I told him it should never happen again.
"He then started to tell me about [the boy's] body.
"I said, 'F*, stop'. I shouted at Tim that he had to stop. I didn't want to know any of the details but he made it sound like a one-off.
"I said, 'I don't want you to tell me anymore'. I said, 'You've got to stop, just never do it again. Regardless how that happened it must never happen again'.
"Tim would say it was just '[boy] time'.
"I said, 'What the hell is [boy] time?'"
'Timothy Schofield's head was in a mess'
In the statement, the TV host said that prior to his sibling driving over to his home, the defendant had called the star in an agitated state.
Mr Schofield said: "Tim was in an extreme state of agitation, and he said that he was on the verge of killing himself. He said his head was in a mess."
When he arrived at Mr Schofield's house a couple of hours later, the defendant was "as angry as I have ever seen him", the court heard.
During the face-to-face conversation, Mr Schofield said he urged his brother to see his GP and get counselling.
*^^trial reporting
Sources The Mirror (I think) and Sky need*