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Today in Focus

The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The newsreader has been sentenced for accessing indecent images of children. How did the BBC handle the scandal? Dan Boffey reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.0

Today, from news anchor to convicted pedophile, the secret life of Hugh Edwards.

0:20.0

Meet John.

0:23.0

Hello.

0:24.0

It's Friday night and he's just dented his partner's new car.

0:28.0

Now he's wondering if he can make a claim before she gets back home on Monday.

0:32.0

Thankfully, Aviva can help solve this car insurance conundrum.

0:35.5

We're available for new planes around the clock,

0:38.0

so John can sort this out right away.

0:40.4

Breaking the news is up to him though.

0:42.0

Um, darling.

0:43.0

Helping solve your car insurance puzzles,

0:45.0

it takes Aviva.

0:47.0

Get a quote today at Aviva. A quick warning before we start this episode discusses child abuse and suicide. Yeah, so it's a very early start for me because there's bound to be hundreds of journalists

1:10.0

who wanted to get into to see the court hearing, see the sentencing of Hugh Edwards.

1:14.7

So I was there about 6.37 a.m.

1:18.0

Dan Boffy, the Guardian's chief reporter, was outside Westminster Magistrates Court early on Monday morning to secure a seat for a case that has shocked the nation.

1:28.0

Shortly after 9 a.m. the most famous news reader in the country arrived.

1:36.0

Hugh Edwards walked straight past the waiting journalists, ignoring many of his former BBC colleagues and went inside. It was time to learn his fate.

1:46.3

And he was very polite as he was led in and everything but he looked awful. He looked

1:49.7

extremely tired, extra pale. And there was nobody with him apart from his lawyer, his extremely

1:55.3

expensive lawyer.

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