Regrets about Oxbridge rejectiin...bought up by New Edwards

[mids2019]

So part of Huws apparent mental health struggles was apparently feel seated low self esteem partly by failure to get into Oxford when perhaps he was expected to and he was surrounded by Oxbridge educated peers at the BBC.

Moving away from. The odious crime do you think spoke can have such a deep seated reaction to Oxbridge rejection and does it least??

I flunked my A levels and didn't go to Uni, my big regret. I did a masters in my 30s whilst working full time with 2 little kids
Get over yourself is my view.

It's a ridiculous excuse. You don't commit a CSA crime because you've got a decades old chip on your shoulder.

I looked up a few well known newsreaders... some of them hadn't been to uni at all, worked their way up from the bottom.

I don't believe this excuse AT ALL.

Also ridiculous to claim he felt like an outsider at the BBC. As their most high profile and highly paid newsreader? Sure Huw 🙄🙄

Absolutely

just wonder if he had to write out a timeline of times he felt negative emotions and the barrister went through and made some stories/excuses.

I strongly suspect that this did actually happen. Think you've hit the nail on the head there

Honestly this is a terrible thing to try to pin his crimes on and/or he’s had really really terrible PR advice.

Obviously not an excuse for his crimes.

However, I know someone who received an offer from Oxford but missed the grades. Most of her extended family went to Oxford or Cambridge and she really didn't enjoy the uni she went to. I think it has really affected her although they don't talk about it.

No, you don't sound remotely like a wanker with no resilience. Quite the opposite, in fact. It just shows how difficult and destructive it is to put pressure on children to perform and it says a lot about your non-wankerdom and resilience that you've successfully protected your children from that.

I'm one of the people who did get into Oxbridge and yes it was bloody awful there and plenty of highly intelligent people don't get a place, plenty of real wankers do.

(Edwards, on the other hand, couldn't even manage to stick to being a wanker without abusing children in the process. 😢)

It’s the pressure from other people’s expectations and being surrounded by people who achieved this, bearing in mind that it happens at the beginning of your adult life. I can very much identify with that

I’m seeing a YA crime novel set in a Durham college where Oxbridge rejection has caused everyone to turn to a life of embittered crime aged 18. Called The Rejects. They blindfold their victims with the scarves of the colleges they applied to.

We know exactly that this wasn’t it. The information was the result of two reports, so presumably at least two interviews, with a consultant psychiatrist / neuropsychiatrist. Plus it wasn’t just not going to Oxford but going to Cardiff instead

I would totally read that

I think any mitigation for his crimes is obscene. No thought for the children whose lives have been ruined, just more excuses for his sickening behaviour.

Alas, it would need to be written by someone who knows Durham better than I do. (I actually got an Oxford place and therefore didn’t start holding up banks…)

Pitiful excuses all of them!
He should be ashamed, but I doubt it.

Trying to divert attention from his disgusting self to start a debate about “privilege” and he’s just a person who has felt enormous pain, etc

Everything he says will be scripted by a PR person. If this is their best strategy Huw is doomed

So he is saying that his grieving wife caused him to betray his true values and commit crimes? As did his rejection from Oxford?

His lawyer must have used the excuse because our criminal justice system falls for such nonsense! Pathetic.

He is in effect saying he is unable to control his actions unless other people act a certain way.

Surely If he is that incapable of controlling his actions that he abuses others because of peoples decisions and grief reactions then he should be in prison?

Do judges and jury’s believe such nonsense?

I'm sure some people never get over it (and the same with other aspirational universities- I'm 62 and still think 'what if' if I had been offered my top choice uni). But it doesn't lead to this behaviour. It can be a contributing factor to low self esteem.
He may have well been surrounded by those that had been to Oxbridge, but he was very successful in his career so why the comparison? Like, say you went to big standard uni and had the same position as someone who went to Oxford. Would you be envious or think 'gosh I'm as successful as you without the fancy degree'.

DD got an offer last year than missed the grades.
I'm absolutely determined it should not be a defining moment.
She's had a mixed year at her uni - just as she would at Cambridge. Met lovely people and arseholes, sat in amazing spaces and shitholes, all typical uni stuff. Written less essays, had too much time, than learned to fill it with work and hobbies.
If she commits hideous crimes it is as likely to be because of phrenology (the bumps on your skull) as her UCAS form.

Oxbridge rejection leads to sex offending, ok.

its bollocks from a self serving paedo making excuses for his appalling behaviour.

He and his lawyer should be ashamed to even come up with ANY kind of excuse or mitigation for what he did. How can he show his face while claiming any let-downs in life or not-great relationship with a parent blah blah have anything to do with it. That’s billions of people have experienced things like that. Even many people who were themselves abused as kids manage to not be abusers. It’s a choice made to satisfy sexual urges with no shits given for the victims or the impacts on his family or anyone else. Just for sexual thrills, which, you know what Huw, you can actually manage without.

Anyone know how and why he managed to escape a prison sentence? I can't wrap my head around that.

Sentencing guidelines. The guy who supplied him only had a suspended prison sentence too. First offence CSA material offences rarely/never get a custodial sentence.

He has a huge ego. You can tell from how he presents himself, from what his excuses have been, from how he stares at cameras, the way he speaks, the text messages, his reaction to the BBC asking fir the salary back. He has no shame and is angry he has been caught- it's all not his fault.