Huw Edwards

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To think he shouldn't have been paid in full while off long term. As its more like being self employed.
But mainly cos it was 475k upwards of our TV licence money!
Another example is when a famous radio presenter s decide to go off for an extended break to film another show or something. Surely they don't get normal pay when they have extra weeks off not on air!!

It should be repaid if there is a guilty verdict.

@hellotowel what??

Just realised though, the amount of gloating at The Sun newspaper today will be on another level after they were absolutely lambasted for breaking the original story…

FFS.

I mean. Total over reaction.

Are you for real?

Employment law says you are wrong!

Don't watch it then?

But I'm not sure how you can be sure any news reader or tv presenter is whiter than white?

Did he “accidentally” receive 37 child sexual abuse* images of children over a period of months?
If he received one, immediately blocked the sender and went straight to the police then I could understand, but 37 over a period of time - no, just no.

*let’s call it what it is - not indecent images, not child porn but child sexual abuse

Poster boy for all the child rapists out there.
I don’t think he’ll be looking as ‘sharp’ in prisons clothes

I don't know how that came about but I am guessing he couldn't be disadvantaged due to his suspension.

@Wetherspoons I could not care less about the BBC. I don’t pay a TV license.

What I do care about is people using an horrific crime like CSA as an excuse to rant and rail about the BBC. How does that help victims of CSA? It doesn’t. Gives the ragers a nice little glow of outrage though.

I care about employment law and due process being followed so that everyone can expect to be treated fairly in any circumstance where they may be on sick or gardening leave pending an investigation.

Given HE was only charged in June and had been cleared of any other offences until that date, what grounds could the BBC have sacked him under that wouldn’t have lead to a tribunal and a payout of a lot more of ‘your’ money?

If we now want to fire people on public outage alone, I hope everyone here with the BBC pitchforks has a spotless work record.

Reactionary ‘justice’ very often comes knocking at the wrong doors.

Is it really an overreaction though? Just think how much better society would be if all these roles were held by women.

Men are often sexual predators and are just generally overrated for their contributions to humanity.

Depends on the contract. If his contract said he was entitled to full pay then he was entitled. Maybe you should go and audition and see if you get offered a good contract.

People did dismiss it on here because it was The Sun

And thought people were out to get the BBC and HE

No.

They didn't bloody know!!!!

Yeah they claimed not to know about Savile either but they covered that up too.

@eatfigs at what point did you know he was dodgy?

I think they've just split up...

By the likes of Jon Sopel who vociferously defended his friend Huw Edwards - as someone who should be allowed a private life and ‘no criminality’ had occured. He also slagged off other BBC colleagues for reporting on it! Wonder how he’s feeling today? I actually feel sorry for those who defended him because he lied to them too. No wonder he had a huge MH crisis, he knew what was coming.

He's pleading guilty

THANK YOU - I am shocked and sickened at the number of news outlets calling it CP, when there is NO SUCH THING.

'Images of child sexual abuse'

I don’t believe The Sun broke the news out of true journalistic integrity. I believe it’s a happenstance that they found an ugly story about a BBC presenter which of course has lead to today. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe the original story puts him in a good position but it wasn’t part of the illegalities that have since come out. It’s still a very moral grey area whether that initial story had public value on its own merit.

There’s a massive gap between ‘whiter than white’ and sexual predator watching images of child rape and child sexual abuse, isn’t there?