From The Guardian (to avoid their paywall)
BBC apologises to family at centre of Huw Edwards scandal
Corporation launched review into complaints procedure after scandal about presenter last year
The BBC has apologised to the parents of a young person who made a complaint about the suspended BBC presenter Huw Edwards, admitting it should have acted more quickly.
The corporation launched a review into its complaints procedure after the scandal in July last year.
Edwards has not made any public statement since he was named as the BBC presenter accused of a string of allegations, including paying a 17-year-old for sexually explicit photos for several years since 2020.
The veteran news anchor was named in a statement released by his wife, which said he was suffering from “serious mental health issues” and, after the controversy emerged, had received inpatient hospital care after suffering from a “serious episode”.She said he would “respond to the stories that have been published when he was well enough to do so”.
On Tuesday Leigh Tavaziva, BBC group chief operating officer, said the report had identified “specific process shortcomings” in the complaint made to the corporation about Edwards. “The initial complaint in this case was not escalated quickly enough to senior management and we have apologised to the complainant for this,” she said.
A separate internal workplace investigation that will consider whether Edwards – who presented the BBC’s News at Ten for two decades and fronted its coverage of major events such as the death of Queen Elizabeth II – brought the broadcaster into disrepute is thought to be ongoing.
The BBC said it would bolster its procedures for dealing with non-editorial complaints after a review – carried out by Deloitte partner Simon Cuerden – found that while the BBC had the policies, procedures and knowhow about how to deal with the most serious complaints there was a “clear need for greater consistency across the BBC”.
The report found that the complaint was made at “a BBC location in Cardiff on 18 May”, but while the BBC’s corporate investigations team sought to make contact with the complainant the case was not “escalated” and the case not logged in the BBC system at the time “meaning that there was no opportunity for wider visibility of the case within the BBC”.
It added that because of a lack of documented process for contact and follows-ups with the complainant, when initial contact attempts were unsuccessful, the course of action was not clear.
The BBC said it had put in a new “escalation mechanism” to make sure this did not happen again.
The review also found that some employees said that they were “nervous” about raising complaints.
It stated: “These employees said they have lower levels of confidence in how robustly the complaint will be handled if it is a grievance relating to another member of staff or talent, particularly where there is an actual or perceived power discrepancy between the complainant and the subject of the complaint.”
The review was sparked after the Sun reported last July that “a well-known presenter” had given a 20-year-old crack cocaine user “more than £35,000 since they were 17 in return for sordid images”.
The parents of the young person said a complaint made to the BBC was ignored in May last year. The BBC acknowledged the complaint had been made in May and was assessed by the corporate investigations team, but the BBC boss, Tim Davie, said at that point there was no “allegation of criminality”.
A lawyer for the person, now in their early 20s, said in a letter to the BBC in July that the allegations were “rubbish” and insisted “nothing inappropriate” had happened.
The lawyer said: “For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in The Sun newspaper are rubbish.”
The BBC previously said it immediately emailed the complainant – a family member – seeking more information but did not get a response. A follow-up call was made on 6 June but it did not connect, the BBC said.
The BBC said that it had received “new allegations” on 6 July, which was the first time the director general or any executive directors were “made aware” of the claims at which point they took the presenter off air. It initiated its serious case management framework (SCMF) on 7 July and suspended the presenter on 9 July.
Ain’t the BBC wonderful.
Nominated by Sir Limply Stoke.
Good old Auntie.
A national treasure.
Afternoon all.
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“brought the broadcaster into disrepute”
Fuck me that horse bolted after Jimmy Saville..and is still running..
Still a nice gold plated pension for Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew..
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Would be in bad taste to see these pictures?
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Aye now I wouldn’t mind a peek at those pics too.
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Before throwing petrol over and reducing them to ash
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The Edwards one was him showing his arse, make of that what you will. I’ve no inclination to think what he was expecting in return.
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He IS an arse
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The filthy arrogant n*nce has been off for 10 months on full pay, £36,000 a month.
Will no doubt receive a massive severance package and pension.
All courtesy of the British taxpayer.
CUNT.
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To be fair, Mingejuice, there will not be a final pay-off from the BBC.
Instead, we`ve all just paid him nearly £4m for sitting on his fat arse for the last nine months – and he`s probably photographing it for later use, due to his ongoing mental incapacities.
🌻
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Sorry, but £400k, not £4m
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The cunt will get a massive payoff
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Thanks MB. I included a gentle mention of the money the taffy cunt was trousering for NOT working for the National Broadcaster but the admin dear must have thrown a scare and purled her minge into her knitting so in her surprise err…missed it.
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A breeding ground for degeneracy and treason.
Their history of enabling and hiding child molestérs is an appalling disgrace.
Hang Edwards outside the ruins of BBC HQ,after its been dynamited.
Filthy Cunts.
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They’ll probably put up a statue commemorating him, Eric Gill (sculptor, incestuous lech and bestiality freak) isn’t available for the commission.
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Bagsy first shot at Jeremy Vine with a Lee Enfield 0.303
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or a cardboard cut-out of Alex Belfield in his garden.
‘Ow do chunky!’
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I’ll happily send him some pics of my old man in exchange for 35 grand.
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35p🤭🤭🤭🤭
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Okay Jill, you’re on.
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Hello Honky-tonks.
Poor Huw.
Stuck at home with the missus and Kids for a year now😢
No flirting with the work experience boys
No stolen glances with the little Ducky’s fresh out of drama school.
Sat in his car weeping with his eyes shut as he eats a saveloy from the chippy.
Depressed on the sofa
Singing along with Dorothy Gayle.
A living hell for a former BBC swordswallower
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Is he a looker, your dad..
Probably a bit old for huw..
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“Mental Health”…the new umbrella excuse for any number of criminal behaviours. Now including grooming/nọncing.
Maybe I’ll just stop paying my car insurance because of nental health issues.
The pigs’ll have to let me off when I claim to be with Hamas.
35 grand for some pics?
What a sucker Huw is!
He ought to have simply asked Schofield to whatsapp the pics to him, as the youth in question is the one that Phil used as a portapotty in exchange for a few grand.
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Eric Gill would be proud of him.
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On a semi-related note, I’ve bought a month’s subscription to Onlyfans in order to see Katie Price’s clopper.
The pics were well worth £17.50
As a favour to my ISAC chums, I’m willing to share the nicest-looking one:
https://images.app.goo.gl/Xhr8Kgd49P5kX6Wj7
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Looks like she’s had a Kevin Keegan curly perm.
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Looks like Rolf Harris with his teeth out
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I hope you`re not calling Special `K` a cunt, Geordie?
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Thomas you’re an evil man. I’ve just got that mouth burning pre-puke, swallow hard. Fuck sake!
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Most people have seen it whether they wanted too or not.
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Be reet that in winter.
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That is a health hazard, if you went down there you could choke if a couple of those got lodged in your throat 🤮
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I don’t know what has shocked me more. The overgrown pubes or the fact that Reddit allows porn! Do they show cock pic’s? Got a link for me Thomas? 🫶🏻
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Here’s a picture of a knob for you Jill:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/11ntzpm/gary_lineker_to_step_back_from_presenting_motd/
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That’s not quite what I meant Geordie. But I agree, he really is a knob.
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Rather ironically, Geordie & Jill, he`s both a knob and a cunt. Double whammy.
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Reddit like all the social media platforms have groups where definitely illegal activities take place.
You can’t say anything negative about protected minorities (anyone ethnic or rainbow) but you can have fiddler groups and exchange as much illegal material as you can vigorously shake your deviant stick at.
Makes me want to puke my boiled piss!
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Good grief. 😳
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Looks like she’s giving birth to Frankie Howerd.
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Poor old Huw. How will he cope?
I believe it’s a criminal offence to share or receive indecent images from anyone under the age of 18?
Why doesn’t this apply to Huw?
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They’ll arrest him once they get fed up with protecting Islamic militants.
And harassing Jews.
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Then arrest the underage cunt for providing them. And get the money off him.
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30 grand !
Just for a photo of a winky.
That teenage lad ripped him off.
Didn’t even throw in a pair of used Y Fronts for Huw to wear on his head.
Bet Huws missus buys her clothes at George in Asda?
Huw bollocks her for spending £100 on school uniform for the kids.
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Poor old Hugh suffering from Mental Health issues probably incurred when his wife brained him.
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Mrs Edwards buys the school uniform for Huw.
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Off topic, but I see Tommy Robinson has walked out of court a free man.
That’ll get the lefties and Hamas apologists foaming at the mouth.
Good.
Carry on.
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Not really a surprise seeing how useless and inept the met police farce are..
Still at least they can go back to harassing Jews and protecting peaceful scum..
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I can see the BBC report now….
‘Right wing activist Tommy Robinson real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon who is an islamaphobic right wing activist has walked free from court even if he is a right wing activist,’
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and Sky ‘journalists’.
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The British Bumbandits Corporation.
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No we know what Huw was thinking all the times he provided those sombre commentaries to British state occasions. I will never think of the Queen’s funeral and the King’s coronation in the same light again. Huw was probably thinking that the Coronation Sword of Mercy would make an excellent sex aid.
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I bet old Huwie wore a gas mask, sussies and a rubber mac when he was doing Her Majesty’s funeral commentary.
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I also see our brave boys in blue clashed with far Right football hooligans at a St George’s day parade?
Those beastly far Right thugs!
Why can’t they behave?
Like those nice Palestine marchers do every Saturday.
OhhhhTommy Tommy
Tommy Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
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Displays of English patriotism are far right terrorism, don’t you know. Calling for jihad and displaying anti-semetic placards are ok.
Thinking of going to next Saturday’s Palestinian demo in my black coat, big hat and a couple of fake long sidelocks. I will stand there and recite passages from the Torah and challenge the police to arrest me for being too Jewish.
The World is even more full of cunts right now than usual.
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I saw about a dozen members of the Chipping Campden Morris dancers steam in too, the lead squire roaring “UNLEASH HELL!”.
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Dressing as a bipedal pig and carrying a stereo playing Nine Inch Nails’ Closer.
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Just reflecting Miserable that it is about time we put you up for Poet Laureate. No clue who the present cunt is conjuring the old limericks for Royal Babies, State Occasions and National Disasters but at least you would be memorable. You would be on a State Pension as well.
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Simon Armitage, who wrote a poem about Satan Blair called Poodle which included the following memorable lines –
“It bared its canines and growled: “Shut the fuck up, son. Forty five minutes and down come the dirty bombs –”
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Evening Sir Limply,
Yes it’s about time I got some recognition for cultural achievements.
And some money.
I’d be happy to accept a award in that London off that funny little mayor.
” How awfully nice to meet you
And be allowed to speak.
I’ve never seen a midget with such a prominent beak.
Are you a toucan? A paki manilow?
Or some kind of puppet?
A spicy pinocchio?
I’ll take the money now lads,
I hear your ducky thieves?
I wasn’t hatched from a egg you cunts, you’ll have my trousers down!
A poor innocent Northern boy out in London town.
So I’m off back home to Northern hills, gravy and good ale,
I think this is a farce.
You can take your mayor an London town an shove it up yer arse.
Fin😁
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Bravo Moltissimo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Dirty deviant.Time to defund old Aunty.Push him in front of an oncoming steamroller.
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BBC company pension
Retire on ill health (Mental..!).
Get a full pension….
Sacked for gross misconduct,
Deferred pension.
What a fucking cock showing con…!
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I think he’s off to Channel 4. He’ll be asking for money for piccies of his bits. All in aid of Palestine or something worthy….
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Here you are me hearties:
https://www.dogsonacid.com/attachments/5ad235e1-6782-4d6b-bb88-d3153be80e4c-jpeg.285915/
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Could not find an uncensored version – there is one with a Saville cut out up his arse – but if anyone can find the unvarnished truth do a public service and post it here.
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That’s the one.
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Ho ho, splendid SLS!
This pic is from the evening Huw spent with Richard Gere.
“Only a gerbil?” scoffed Huw, sneering at Gere’s lack of colon capacity.
“Why, I can fit most of Dawn Butler up 𝘮𝘺 asshole.”
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Are Huw and Phillip Schofield going to do a double act tour?
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Yes they are Norman..
“I’m a Celebrity Saturday Night Sodomite”.
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‘Blind Date Rape’
‘Strike It Ducky’
‘Opportunity Cocks’
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Huw Edwards’ Play Your Cocks Right
The Arse Is Right (Come on down)
Sod of the Century
Bumseye (Great Smashing Super. Look what yer could have bummed)
Wankety Wank
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Poor Hugh. We’ve all done it. Paying small boys for dick pics.
He has been badly treated, along with his mental elf.
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The BBC will just replace him with another trouser invader. Photographing one’s arse and sharing it with rent boys and sundry wank wizards is minor stuff when compared to some of Sir Jimmy’s antics.
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Leaving on medical advice my arse!
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Regardless whatever Huw got up to, I only ever noticed the expressions on his face would sometimes give a more excruciating look, that let you know his Farmer Giles were giving him more gyp on that particular day.
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Anyway, where’s that huge n*gger cunt Ephraim when you need him?
(Strange name for a black, innit?)
He should be spunking all over Huw Edwards and the Director General by now,
Going berserk and killing everyone in Broadcasting House,
Burning the place to the fucking ground.
Not much to ask, is it?
Thought it would’ve appealed to his primitive urges. 😂
Fuck them.
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This cocksucker has provided the blueprint for future transgressors of his ilk.
Just get a private doctor to write you a sicky, declare yourself loony 🤪😜 and book yourself into a luxury clinic.
Exclusive club for celebrity weirdos.
Huw likes a touch of the exotic.
Stick a Bangalore Torpedo up his arse.
Fire in the hole !! 🔥💥
How’s about that then ?
Good morning 🌄👍
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Yes he’s obviously suffering from mental elf issues or more likely he’s a n*nce cunt.
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I fully expected this cunt turning up on the 1pm BBC news at dinner time as if nothing had happened.
10 months & 400k later he’s resigning from the BBC apparently no pay out but no mention about his gold plated pension how convenient?
Pull the mental health card and avoid the police getting involved in under age sex scandals BBC not fit for purpose defund it immediately
Huw Edwards is a smug entitled cunt he’s a hypocrite of the highest order I wouldn’t be surprised if he pops up somewhere on the telly in a couple of years time on some unbelievable salary nice work if you can get it
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If he wasn’t a shirtlifter he’s have been crucified by social media. It’s only straight white christian value working men that don’t have a scapegoat. Everyone else gets to play the victim card and have no questions asked.
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i remember cunts on Twitter trying to defend him, and saying people were homophobic for suggesting the young person was male.
Fuck off, Twitter.
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