The Huw Edwards files: behind the scenes at the BBC
An hour before Huw Edwards was due to be sentenced last September, an ominous email landed in the inbox of the BBC director-general, Tim Davie. Titled 'private and confidential', it revealed that a complaint had been made about the news anchor's conduct in the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal in 2012 — a decade before Edwards was suspended. Davie replied three minutes later.
Since Edwards was taken off air in July 2023, victims, whistleblowers, BBC staff and the public have expressed frustration about the veil of secrecy that has hung over the corporation's handling of the scandal. The BBC has refused to say how many complaints it has received about Edwards. Bosses have never published the findings of an internal inquiry into his behaviour.
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