Virtue Signalling BBC Still Pretending to Pursue Huw Edwards Salary Repayment

The virtue signalling BBC is still pretending to pursue disgraced former newsreader Huw Edwards for the repayment of around £200,000 in salary.

I say virtue signalling because the BBC Director General, Tim Davie, knows fine well that Edwards is under no legal obligation at all to repay salary to which he was contractually entitled when he was suspended from BBC duties. The BBC is maintaining the pretence of trying to do the right thing for no other reason than to save face.

Addressing Peers on the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee, Davie said: "The BBC position is clear, the money should be returned and we have made the request. We do expect to make progress and get an answer. We will explore [a legal process] but that is challenging. Our position is clear, we have made the request and that is where we sit."

Old noncey chops Edwards vanished from the BBC airwaves in July 2023, amid rumours he had solicited intimated images from a vulnerable male adult. He was formally suspended by the BBC in November 2023, when it came to light he had been arrested on suspicion of downloading indecent images of children. He eventually resigned from the national broadcaster "on medical grounds" in April 2024, having pocketed around £200,000 in salary during his suspension.

As reported earlier on TV Licensing Blog, the 63-year-old sexual deviant admitted downloading indecent images of children when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 31st July 2024.

His conviction relates to the production of 7 category A images (involving penetrative sexual activity); 12 category B images (involving non-penetrative sexual activity); and 22 category C images (involving sexualised poses).

It now transpires that the images were shared with Edwards in a single WhatsApp conversation with 25-year-old Merthyr Tydfil man Alex Williams. Williams has already been handed a suspended sentence for his role in the conversation.

Edwards is due for sentencing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 16th September 2024.

It will be fascinating to see how much time, effort and public money the BBC invests in trying to recover salary payments it knows fine well Edwards was entitled to.

The BBC is fully aware that any effort it makes in that regard are entirely for show purposes. How much public money is the BBC prepared to flush down the toilet in order to give the right public impression?

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Further anti-BBC reading:

• Is The True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC?, by David Sedgwick (aff. link)
• The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, by Tom Mills (aff. link)