Huw Edwards Named As BBC Presenter In Sexting Images Scandal

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Huw Edwards Named As BBC Presenter In Sexting Images Scandal Jul 12, 2023 20:42:15 GMT

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Post by Webster on Jul 12, 2023 20:42:15 GMT

(The Guardian) Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter at centre of allegations
Huw Edwards has been named by his wife, Vicky Flind, as the BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit images.

In a statement to the PA news agency, Flind said her husband was “suffering from serious mental health issues” and is “receiving inpatient hospital care, where he will stay for the foreseeable future” as she asked for privacy for her family.

Flind said: “In light of the recent reporting regarding the ‘BBC presenter’ I am making this statement on behalf of my husband Huw Edwards, after what have been five extremely difficult days for our family. I am doing this primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children.

“Huw is suffering from serious mental health issues. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years. The events of the last few days have greatly worsened matters, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving in-patient hospital care where he’ll stay for the foreseeable future.

“Once well enough to do so, he intends to respond to the stories that have been published. To be clear Huw was first told that there were allegations being made against him last Thursday. In the circumstances and given Huw’s condition I would like to ask that the privacy of my family and everyone else caught up in these upsetting events is respected. I know that Huw is deeply sorry that so many colleagues have been impacted by the recent media speculation. We hope this statement will bring that to an end.”

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Huw Edwards Named As BBC Presenter In Sexting Images Scandal Jul 12, 2023 20:47:48 GMT

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(The Guardian) The --- says it never 'alleged criminality' in BBC presenter story
The --- has issued a statement insisting it never accused Huw Edwards of criminal activity and blamed other media outlets for reading too much into its reporting.

On Friday night the tabloid claimed that “a well-known presenter” at the BBC had given a young person “more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images”.

Owning explicit pictures of a 17-year-old counts as possession of child sexual abuse images under English and Welsh law, is a serious criminal offence that carries a recommended jail term. As a result the BBC suspended Edwards and referred the matters to the police, who later concluded there was no criminal case to answer.

The --- now insists it never actually meant to imply anything illegal took place and added it has no plans to publish further allegations. A spokesperson said: “The allegations published by the --- were always very serious. Further serious allegations have emerged in the past few days.

“It is right that the BBC’s corporate investigations team continues to investigate these thoroughly and deals with them in the way that they think is appropriate. The --- will cooperate with the BBC’s internal investigation process. We will provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel.

“The --- has no plans to publish further allegations. We must also re-emphasise that the Sun at no point in our original story alleged criminality and also took the decision neither to name Mr Edwards nor the young person involved in the allegations. Suggestions about possible criminality were first made at a later date by other media outlets, including the BBC.

“From the outset, we have reported a story about two very concerned and frustrated parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and payments from him that fuelled the drug habit of a young person. We reported that the parents had already been to the police who said that they couldn’t help. The parents then made a complaint to the BBC which was not acted upon. It is now for the BBC to properly investigate.”

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Huw Edwards Named As BBC Presenter In Sexting Images Scandal Jul 12, 2023 22:25:04 GMT

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(The Guardian) The BBC should be given space to conduct an investigation into the allegations faced by newsreader Huw Edwards, a government minister said.

Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, told Sky News: “I think the right thing to do is to allow the BBC to conduct whatever investigation they feel they need to do and to make sure that the family are not dragged into this. After all, there’s one person who’s been alleged to have done wrong, not his whole family.”

Asked about the BBC’s handling of the controversy, he said: “I have very partial information and I don’t want to rush to judgment when actually these are serious allegations. And the correct thing to do is to find out what actually happened before casting aspersions on anyone.”

One of the ---’s arguments is that it did not initially suggest Huw Edwards engaged in illegal behaviour – and that it was actually other outlets that did. One problem for the --- is that it did later run an article suggesting Edwards “could face criminal charges and years behind bars”.

The piece was written by Scarlet Howes, the same --- reporter who broke the initial story, based on quotes in the Times.

The juxtaposition was seized on by Hacked Off, the group that campaigns for press regulation.

The ---’s reporting on Edwards is increasingly part of a wider debate about tabloid excess, with Labour currently developing its policies on press regulation in the expectation the party enters government next year.

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Huw Edwards Named As BBC Presenter In Sexting Images Scandal Jul 12, 2023 22:27:11 GMT Ste_Macca likes this

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Post by Webster on Jul 12, 2023 22:27:11 GMT

*looks around* Ste_Macca, in the above post there is a reference off of Twitter to the Rag That Shall Not Be Named; in the interest of posting about the above controversy, I opted to include the tweet which had the rag's headspace in the above tweet pic. I did take effort, though, to erase their name from the posts above.

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