BBC Failed To Consider “Potential Wider Significance” Of Huw Edwards Complaint, Says Review
deadline.comThe BBC did not “consider the potential wider significance” of the complaint against Huw Edwards when it was logged last May, a review into the disgraced newsreader has said.
The review, published in the past few minutes, makes for uncomfortable reading for the nation’s public broadcaster and its response to the initial complaint made against Edwards.
BBC Group Chief Operating Officer Leigh Tavaziva said the broadcaster has apologised to the complainant about the speed in which it was escalated.
The BBC newsreader was revealed to be the subject of a Sun exposé about a ‘BBC presenter’ who had allegedly paid a young person around £30,000 ($38,000) for indecent images, and Director General Tim Davie soon after ordered two reviews into the matter – one on BBC complaints processes, which published today, and the other a ‘factfinding investigation.’ The initial complaint was made in May 2023 but BBC senior leadership was only informed on July 6, the review said, at which point “the internal investigation into claims raised in respect of the presenter was ongoing.” The review therefore considered that the “potential wider significance” of the complaint about one of the BBC’s most prominent and highly paid on-screen presenters was not recognized by the BBC’s corporate investigations team.
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