Huw Edwards guilty: What questions now for the BBC?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The court heard Edwards had been involved in an online chat with an adult man on WhatsApp between December 2020 and April 2022, while he was still presenting on the BBC.
On the Sky News Daily, host Liz Bates is joined by Sky correspondent Henry Vaughn who was at the court in Westminster as Edwards pleaded guilty, and asks Jake Kanter, international investigations editor at Deadline, what his plea could mean for the national broadcaster.
Producers: Emma Woodhouse & Tom Pooley
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
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| 0:59.9 | Let's go back to this time last year. Do you remember that sun front page? Top BBC star in SexPix probe? I definitely do. |
| 1:09.3 | Because as soon as it landed landed it felt like everybody was talking |
| 1:12.6 | about it frantically almost trying to figure out who it was. So much so that some of the BBC's |
| 1:18.6 | biggest stars Gary Linneker, Jeremy Vine felt like they needed to say, look, it's not me. But the one |
| 1:26.1 | person who couldn't do that was Hugh Edwards. |
| 1:32.8 | It was hard to imagine at the time BBC News without him, |
| 1:36.3 | especially at the big moments. |
| 1:38.0 | And then suddenly, he was gone. |
| 1:40.7 | Since then, he's been arrested, left the BBC for good, |
| 1:43.9 | and today he pled guilty to multiple child pornography offences. |
| 1:48.4 | But he's not the only one with questions to answer. |
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