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!!

And these charges are separate to what he was suspended for.

Most employers won’t know what their staff are downloading on their own technology

Completely agree.

Well, he has ruined his life hasn't he. And his family's. And contributed to the ruining of the kids' lives. Hope they throw the book at him with a decent sentence.

There won't be a 'guilty verdict', as he has pleaded guilty.

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Compl inappropriate, I know, but Huw does look quite cool today with his sharp suit, silver hair & dark shades, doesn’t he?

No. He looks like a sad, pathetic, sleezy old pedophile to me. But whatever floats your boat.

Oh well. Boo boo. He shouldn’t do scummy, illegal and immoral things. I doubt that caused his mental health distress -it was the getting caught bit that did it

Clearly he doesn't have an exceptional character does he?! I can't believe his barrister had the brass neck to say that. But then the aim of the game is to get the lightest sentence possible isn't it?

Sickening.

Nothing to do with who his employer is. It's basic contract and employment law which applies to everyone.

I bet he doesn't even think about the victims of these images at all. He should have done the right thing from the get go, but obviously he got off on it all.
Nasty vile individual who deserves to be lonely and unhappy forever in my book.
Exceptional character my arse.

Seriously???

Surely there should be some means to recoup the pay rise at least now he's a convicted criminal?

Whilst the BBC has being enabling this mans admitted paedophilia by paying him a fortune(he pled guilty), like they did with Savile (there's a pattern), meanwhile they've been disproportionately prosecuting women, poor people and the vulnerable for not paying their TV licenses.

https://www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/2023-news/bbc-publishes-report-into-why-75-per-cent-of-prosecutions-for-non-payment-of-tv-licence-fee-are-against-women/

The difference in treatment tells you all you need to know. It might be in the contract, that contract is therefore immoral and would not be supported by those who pay for it.

Paying people these sums for a job quite a lot of people could do more than adequately and for far less money really is part of the problem, these men think they're invincible and use their power to abuse and then to cover up that abuse.

I do think in a democracy it's legitimate to criticise a publicly funded organisation that is using public funding to enable paedophiles. It happened with Savile and was covered up. How many times? And it's insidious within the organisation. I had to complain once about an article that described 14 year old prostitutes in India as 'sex workers'. How much choice did these poor girls have? Answer, none. It's child abuse ffs.

They gave me a word salad nothing response by the way.

Along with being paedophiles I think these people are narcissists. I doubt if any of them feel humiliated, embarrassed, contrite, nothing. Just the way H.E. arrived at court today head high, spruced up, cool shades the lot. He doesn't care and neither do any of them. They did nothing wrong or illegal ha ha.

The guilty plea could be to protect others in the circle of friends.

And why are they banging on about his poor physical and mental health? It's totally irrelevant.

I'm fucking sick to death of criminals using the mental health trump card.

And all this 'be kind' bollocks.

One of my children's teachers was doing a similar thing. Went to court etc, a small bit in the paper and now on the register. It was a shock to discover this was happening and a lot of people were in denial; they couldn't accept that someone they trusted behaved like this. My adult children told me (only recently) that they felt creeped out by him at school but couldn't explain why at the time; it was only in hindsight when he was caught that they could make sense of what they felt. I've questioned my own parenting at times (eg did I miss something). Awful situation; my thoughts go to his victims today.

‘Exceptional character’ ~ other than the tiny matter of helping to perpetuate an industry where children are raped, tortured and sexually abused for the amusement of adult men.

Can you imagine someone saying to you IRL ‘ oh he’s a lovely bloke, real family man. Good laugh, intelligent. Although, he does enjoy the odd bit of child rape. But that aside he’s top notch. Sure, nobody’s perfect.’

He got a 40,000 payrise whilst suspended mind boggling

Absolutely irrelevant. If I’d been caught doing something illegal that most of society absolutely abhor, and it had destroyed my career and family, I’d be struggling a bit too with my mental health…

Well, to be fair to the BBC, he could well have been found not guilty, and they would have been in a world of legal trouble for not paying him and/or allowing him the payrise.

Basic employment law, whether you work for a small company or massive national conglomerate.

Any mental or physical health problems from the exposure of his paedophilia are his own fault.

I'll reserve my sympathy for the mental and physical health problems of the raped children. Which will likely be lifelong.

In this country you’re innocent until proven guilty, as such employment law means they have to treat him like he’s innocent until he is proven otherwise, so they had no option. You can’t just fire or withhold normal pay increases,to an innocent person, and legally he was innocent at that point.

I'll reserve my sympathy for the mental and physical health problems of the raped children. Which will likely be lifelong.

Absolutely. Children’s lives have been ruined by sexual abuse and that’s the only case that every needs to be taken into consideration.

I also feel incredibly sorry for his wife and children who will also be questioning their entire lives and the man who they didn’t know for 30 years. I can’t imagine the devastation this has and will continue to cause them as well. What a wholly selfish man he is to cause so much destruction to so
many lives.

I do agree they should certainly be asking for that money back. I don't agree with the TV licence as it is let alone to fund disgusting humans like him.
But yeah, as an employer they would need to pay him until it went to court, the fact that he should've owned up and stopped taking a wage is the least of his problems now I should think.

His struggle came about from being caught. The fact he had no struggle and in fact pushed himself into the forefront of the world media whilst actively engaging in immoral and illegal practices shows he had little care up until it all fell apart. The mental health struggles scream ‘poor me’ rather than a man who’s always been close to the brink knowing he’s doing the worst kind of wrong.

He hadn't been convicted of anything until today . If he had been found not guilty in a trial he could have sued his employer if they had stopped his pay . Apply this to Joe Bloggs Nobody who has been accused of something like this but not convicted and they were sacked or denied pay .