The Huw Edwards situation

[Tony Edwards]

The sad thing is, throw enough money at this and it all goes away

Lets hear what the police have to say about it?

The thing is surely the person will get the boot now anyway. Its not like he is Phil from Eastenders.

DOGGING STEVE'S JOB SAFE

EASTENDERS star Steve McFadden is set to save his TV job despite being exposed as a "dogging" pervert.

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[dowie]

The 'victim' has a lawyer who has released a statement saying the claims are rubbish

'Nothing inappropriate' in BBC presenter row - young person's lawyer

Claims being made by the mother at the heart of the BBC presenter row are "rubbish", a lawyer says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Quite a non-specific claim though:

"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 lawyer writes.

No denial that the client has ever met or exchanged massages or pictures with this apparent BBC presenter, they could have denied that if the entire thing were completely fabricated but they don't appear to have done so.

I mean that could arguably still include something along the lines of:

Yeah, "I did meet her when she was 17 but waited until after her 18th birthday before paying for the dirty texting stuff" might well be fine legally but still isn't exactly a good look for a serious BBC presenter.

At least that's perfectly legal and "inappropriate" is rather subjective if you're of the opinion that two consenting adults exchanging pictures is fine.

(Of course, photos of someone showing their arse can be doctored too so people perhaps ought to be careful making direct accusations or indeed naming names.)

 

[Werewolf]

So it sounds like on the one hand you've got the parents of someone making an allegation to the BBC and then being upset that the BBC didn't respond in time and so went to the Sun complaining that the BBC haven't taken their "dossier of information" seriously.
On the other hand you've got the alleged victim whose lawyer is saying nothing happened.

Which would certainly go a very long way to explaining why the BBC haven't said anything about the name of the person involved, and why it's taken more than a few weeks to conclude an investigation, as if the Victim is denying anything happened they're extremely unlikely to be co-operating with any investigation the BBC is doing which sort of puts a bit of a slow down on their ability to do much.

It's almost what I expected when I heard that it was the parent who had made the complaint, and there was no mention of the alleged victim having made one.

I'd love to know how the Sun expects the BBC to get information that the alleged victim doesn't want to give, it's not like the BBC is going to hack their phones, email accounts, medical records or bank to do it.

 

[glenimp617]

Lets hear what the police have to say about it?

are they out of bed yet?

 

[dowie]

On the other hand you've got the alleged victim whose lawyer is saying nothing happened.

They haven't said nothing happened, people skimming the headlines might believe that (just as people skimming headlines seemed to think people with nothing to do with the incident were involved because they'd made statements to distance themselves) but the denial is vague and certainly doesn't seem to exclude everything.

 

[Werewolf]

Sorry, I should have said the lawyer seems to be sayng that nothing illegal happened.

 

[glenimp617]

I 'assume' this young person needs to keep funding their drug habit? I guess they would say nothing happened.

So many ifs, buts and maybes

 

[Tony Edwards]

are they out of bed yet?

Met police to carry out fresh inquiries into BBC presenter allegations

Force assessing if there is evidence of criminality over claims the presenter bought explicit photos from teenager

www.theguardian.com

Scotland Yard said it would carry out fresh inquiries into claims a prominent BBC presenter paid £35,000 for explicit images from a teenager as officers consider whether a full criminal investigation should be launched.

Detectives from the Metropolitan police’s specialist crime command had a virtual meeting with BBC representatives on Monday morning to discuss the allegations, Scotland Yard said.

BBC officials are understood to have passed information to the police, with corporation bosses having suspended the presenter from appearing on screen after claims he spent £35,000 over three years buying explicit images from a young person.

The Met does not consider the threshold for a criminal investigation has yet been reached, but in a statement made it clear the force would carry out further work, but falling short of a formal criminal investigation that would give officers powers of arrest and search.

A police spokesperson said: “They are assessing the information discussed at the meeting and further enquiries are taking place to establish whether there is evidence of a criminal offence being committed. There is no investigation at this time.”

The statement suggests the police are still at the “scoping” stage of the inquiry, where they do not commit to a particular course of action, but it leaves open the option of launching a full investigation.

Detectives are trying to work out what, if any, criminal offence may have been committed by the suspended presenter. The young person was allegedly 17 years old when they began talking to the BBC employee, later exchanging explicit pictures and video calls.

 

[Baldbloke]

Never trust the Sun as a lone source

In fact, never trust the Sun.

Who buys this peice of bumwipe drivel of a rag called The Sun anyway?

 

[n111ck]

I'd love to know how the Sun expects the BBC to get information that the alleged victim doesn't want to give, it's not like the BBC is going to hack their phones, email accounts, medical records or bank to do it.

Could get Martin Bashir to knock up some fake bank statements?

 

[glenimp617]

Just out of interest, £35,000 seems a lot of money for photos. Why £35k, I guess they could have offered a grand and got them?

The whole things full of questions.

 

[glenimp617]

In fact, never trust the Sun.

Who buys this peice of bumwipe drivel of a rag called The Sun anyway?

Oh you'd be surprised how many idiots live here in the UK

 

[thenewoc]

The celebrity squad are dealing with it apparently so probably practicing their jazz hands manoeuvres for a public appearance at some point.

 

[Tony Edwards]

Just out of interest, £35,000 seems a lot of money for photos. Why £35k, I guess they could have offered a grand and got them?

The whole things full of questions.

Its payments over a three year period not one payment.

 

[glenimp617]

Its paymenst over a three year period not one payment.

Even so, it's still a hell of a lot of money for photos. Guess it's £1k per month

 

[thenewoc]

In fact, never trust the Sun.

Who buys this peice of bumwipe drivel of a rag called The Sun anyway?

Luddites that can't use the internet most probably.

 

[gingergundog]

Lets hear what the police have to say about it?

The thing is surely the person will get the boot now anyway. Its not like he is Phil from Eastenders.

Angela, 29, said: "The father of my children is a pervert. Steve loved dirty old men watching us have sex in car parks. It disgusted me, but he told me it was normal."

Oh wow lmao

On topic, maybe a pay off to make it disappear...all pretty sordid anyway if this presenter has been involved with this young person legal or not.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

This is not a comment in the BBC presenter as such (who appears to have been quite dodgy if the story is true)

But I find it ironic that The Sun is breaking this moral outrage story about a very young lady being paid to titalate a man.

They spent 30 years doing that. Sam Fox is the obvious one, but Google 'Maria Whittaker' - they put her on page 3 aged 16 as well.

And they often posted topless pictures of models, alongside a picture of how that model looked at school!

And the UK public used to pay money for this, it was the best selling paper...

If there is one paper in the UK I'd like to see so badly destroyed in court that it had to fold and would never get to spread its lies and hate again it would be that rag. I'm not sure what it being Britain's best selling paper for years says about this country but its nothing good.

 

[Werewolf]

Even so, it's still a hell of a lot of money for photos. Guess it's £1k per month

It actually sounds almost like a "sugar daddy" type thing, or the parents might get some egg on their face as I can think of a couple of ways someone in 18-25 could be earning that sort of money of photos. and possibly not from a single source.

 

[gingergundog]

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