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Hallelujah. The Welsh Moron has been charged

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teddyandgypsy · 29/07/2024 20:33

Some 'good' news at last. The paedophile Huw Edwards, the public face of our public service broadcaster, has been charged with sexual offences. He's hidden in the Priory for more than a year whilst trousering his full salary from the BBC and claiming his mental illness made him download child pornography. I thought he was going to get away with it, but somebody at the CPS has had the guts to charge this moron. Thank god.

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Kimmeridge · 29/07/2024 20:38

If only there was another thread already about this. Oh wait........

letsallmeetupinthehyear2000 · 29/07/2024 20:39

BBC Paying a paedophile tens of thousands a year - surely they wouldn’t 🙄😱

teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 08:37

letsallmeetupinthehyear2000 · 29/07/2024 20:39

BBC Paying a paedophile tens of thousands a year - surely they wouldn’t 🙄😱

Only at the BBC. The man has no pride, no honour. He could have resigned immediately when he was suspended as allegations were made but no, he preferred to cry 'mental health' and run off to a private hospital, leaving his wife to explain to the world. He has hidden for more than a year, all the while taking his obscene salary and even getting a pay rise. He is absolutely beneath contempt and I hope he gets the maximum sentence.

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teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 08:38

Kimmeridge · 29/07/2024 20:38

If only there was another thread already about this. Oh wait........

And your point is what exactly? This man needs maximum publicity

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letsallmeetupinthehyear2000 · 30/07/2024 11:07

Yes exactly teddy
a pay rise ? For what ? !!!
Thoroughly unpleasant man - only interested in himself
since when do mental health issues count as an excuse for what he did?!

PassingStranger · 30/07/2024 11:08

People will always say something. They aren't going to admit it are they.
Pedophiles work everywhere not just the BBC.

KimberleyClark · 30/07/2024 11:09

What does the fact he's Welsh have to do with anything?

Pogggle · 30/07/2024 11:10

I hate the term child pornography. Porn indicates that they are willing participants. It's sexual abuse

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/news/why-language-matters/child-sexual-abuse-material

Ellisace · 30/07/2024 11:16

I was thinking exactly the same thing

HRTQueen · 30/07/2024 11:18

Pogggle · 30/07/2024 11:10

I hate the term child pornography. Porn indicates that they are willing participants. It's sexual abuse

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/news/why-language-matters/child-sexual-abuse-material

I agree its time it was stopped being reported as porn it is not its sexual abuse

Apparently BBC management are shocked at the news. Yet few others are

HRTQueen · 30/07/2024 11:20

and once again hiding in plain sight

he did a report a few years ago on how boxing had helped with his mental health, he was manipulating us all

SamTG · 30/07/2024 11:22

Very odd (at best) to bring his nationality into it. I agree otherwise.

Ponoka7 · 30/07/2024 11:28

There were threads on him when it first came out last year. Those of us who said he was using MH to hide from his crimes, hoping to cover them up, were branded disgusting. The original charges should be looked at again. A married man of 60 has no business sexually messaging a 17 year old, then threatening them to keep quiet. To allow the MET to judge these crimes should be questioned now so many have been sacked themselves for sexual crimes, grooming and DV.

teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 13:03

When you get caught! And just that week he’d been brown nosing management at an awards event before anchoring Charles’s Accession in Scotland. No sign of mental illness then

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teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 13:06

SamTG · 30/07/2024 11:22

Very odd (at best) to bring his nationality into it. I agree otherwise.

Just a way of describing him. Nothing sinister

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teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 13:08

HRTQueen · 30/07/2024 11:20

and once again hiding in plain sight

he did a report a few years ago on how boxing had helped with his mental health, he was manipulating us all

Should come in useful when he’s banged up

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KimberleyClark · 30/07/2024 13:22

teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 13:06

Just a way of describing him. Nothing sinister

If he was English would you have described him as the English Moron?

teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 13:29

Oh for goodness sake. He has made a great deal out of being Welsh so it is reasonable that I describe him as such. Perhaps I should have used: lugubrious, over-promoted, sanctimonious WELSH hypocrite

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CoffeeCantata · 30/07/2024 13:58

It's tragic all round.

I'm not defending him - but I was devastated to discover it was Huw. He was my favourite newsreader/broadcaster. He was absolutely the last person I suspected - although my son knew via social media quite early on, and I was in denial. I've never quite recovered from this bombshell.

To me it's absolutely baffling. The idea that paedophiles are sad, lonely 'losers' is clearly misleading.

EilonwyWithRedGoldHair · 30/07/2024 14:39

No need to point out he's Welsh and moron as a derogatory term is not a word that should be used these days.

However, as you did phrase it that way, moron is Welsh for carrot and that's how I read it and was momentarily confused.

SamTG · 30/07/2024 15:13

teddyandgypsy · 30/07/2024 13:29

Oh for goodness sake. He has made a great deal out of being Welsh so it is reasonable that I describe him as such. Perhaps I should have used: lugubrious, over-promoted, sanctimonious WELSH hypocrite

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He happens to be Welsh, just as Savile and many others happened to be English.
You’d be hard pushed to find people in the UK saying ‘the ENGLISH paedophile Savile’

CantDealwithChristmas · 30/07/2024 15:17

Owen Jones's furious phillippic against the EviL tAbLoiDs for their mistreatment of poor Huw has aged like milk

Callalllaaammma · 30/07/2024 15:27

He will probably just get put on the register and have to do community service but it's more about the fact that he will loose his job.

ForeveraBluebird · 30/07/2024 15:29

I never feel the need to put English infront of vile perpetrators. Their nationality would always be an afterthought to the crime.

Nicola1978x · 31/07/2024 00:33

Huw Edwards is another example of a paedophile who needs his balls cut off.

Simple and straightforward forward, all paedophiles and sex offenders need to be castrated to protect Women, Girls, and Children.

No messing about off with their balls as soon as there convicted.

Almost daily I hear in the media about men who've sexually abused women and children, it's time the Government brought in castration of all sex offenders.

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