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!!

Just been announced on the BBC that they'll be meeting with Lisa Nandy (the new Culture Secretary) to discuss how this has been handled

Being even handed, do you also want ITV gone?

They were paying for the person in question to be escorted by car to Schofields london pad.

And didn't it go on for years?

Not saying I disagree by the way.

My stance is paedos will be employed any and everywhere that allows influence, power and proximity to young people with a good cover. Not sure any big organisation, church included, can ever rout them all out.

Sometimes, or most times, a pedo is a just a pedo.

I want to live in a 'just society' where convicted paedophiles and rapists are surgically castrated. I'm civilised enough to agree they can even have it done under general anaesthetic.

I don't think this Alex Williams is the same person as th vulnerable drug-addicted teen.

If someone is suspended from work they should be paid in full, if someone is charged with offence and remains suspended they should be paid in full. Up until yesterday no-one knew that HW would plead guilty.

If we compare this with say a teacher or someone from the medical profession the same should apply. Teachers are often subject to malicious complaints which are unfounded and the teacher is suspended. There are cases where teachers are charged, the case goes to court and the teacher is found to be innocent. They have a right to be paid during this time, at the time the BBC had no idea about the outcome therefore in my view acted correctly.

@CantDealwithChristmas they are not. The police said they couldn't find anything criminal in respect of vulnerable adult that parents had complained to BBC about. Not sure what the BBC could have done in respect of that, if nothing criminal. I suppose they could have suspended him sooner

My understanding is that the photos were discovered following a police investigation into someone else that led them to HW. Again he was arrested but not charged. Again, not sure they could dismiss him if not yet charged. He was already suspended.

If HE had been cleared and BBC had dismissed him, I assume he could have had a claim against the BBC

I do hope the poor children in the photos are located and are safe 😢

Now his wife is divorcing him, she started the divorce following round 1, round 2 probably finished her off, and he's living alone who knows what he will get up to.
Perverts never stop being perverts.

This article by the former editor of GQ and his meeting with Huw Edwards is rather interesting.

@EsmaCannonball Dylan Jones?

Is he somehow controversial?

Now THAT is fascinating

I'd love to know the identities of the "bold-faced colleagues he obviously despised"!!!

I agree with this principle entirely.
What doesn't then make sense is that the BBC statement says that they knew when he was arrested, and they would have fired him at the point he was charged.

That's not treating someone as innocent until proven guilty. I don't see how that would have worked legally, unless there was a "bringing the corporation into disrepute" clause, which he'd already done with the first set of allegations (as evidenced by the fact they suspended him!)

He'd better not have dissed Clive! I love Clive.

It's actually infuriating that the BBC made some of its more experienced, and probably not noncey, news presenters re-audition for their jobs but kept Huw on. Aside from all this, he is meant to have been a rather difficult and unpleasant colleague.

@Interl0per
I agree the comment from the BBC doesn't make sense.
Even the point about brining the corporation into disrepute only holds if there is clear evidence.

@EsmaCannonball Not that I know of. The article certainly paints yet another side of HE.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13340201/Huw-Edwards-invited-worker-hotel-room-Prince-Philip-funeral-BBC.html

All this hiding in plain sight bollocks is annoying. If a GQ editor found him camp, weird and contrary surely his family and colleagues did too.

His dour News at Ten face was obviously not the real serious, apparently nice man we'd all been led to believe he was. Those who knew him don't seem very complimentary. Why on earth are some people acting so surprised? It seems it's only us, the paying viewers who have been kept in the dark about his unpleasant true self.

Dylan Jones has said he has revised his opinions of Edwards since that lunch six years ago. There are plenty of weird, camp and contrary people in the world who lead exemplary lives.

My abiding memory of Edwards will always be the unscripted hours he spent
broadcasting the day of the Queen’s death. It was impeccable journalism at its finest, the tone was perfect for the occasion. That was as much his true self as his other behaviour. Human beings are complex and multi faceted. I feel desperately sorry for the victims here, for Edwards’ family and sad for that talented journalist who was betrayed by the baser side of himself.

‘My abiding memory of Edwards will always be the unscripted hours he spent
broadcasting the day of the Queen’s death. It was impeccable journalism at its finest, the tone was perfect for the occasion. That was as much his true self as his other behaviour. Human beings are complex and multi faceted.’

he’s a paedophile - how well he reads the news is really neither here nor fucking there.
I wonder if the child in the video he enjoyed watching is alive? Was it a child being raped by its father or another relative? Or some street kid who was abused and disposed of as an inconvenience when they were done with them?

Multi faceted?

He was whatsapping a pedophile in Wales for child abuse images - do we really give a shit about his coverage of the Queen's funeral??

Astonishing

My abiding memory will be the unscripted hours he spent engaging in the exchange of images of child abuse.

I'm hoping to forget the mental image of what he was presumably doing with those images.