Overview

• Huw Edwards pleaded guilty in 2024 to possessing 41 indecent images of children, receiving a six-month suspended sentence.
• Freedom of Information disclosures show BBC executives knew of a 2012 complaint about Edwards’s conduct but deemed it non-actionable at the time.
• Executives used codenames to discuss Edwards's arrest in 2023 and withheld the information from the BBC board and public until mid-2024.
• The BBC is demanding Edwards return over £200,000 in salary paid following his arrest, but he has yet to comply.
• Victims, whistleblowers, and staff criticize the BBC for lack of transparency, delayed FOI responses, and withholding inquiry findings.