Huw Edwards: The Sun says it has file of ‘severe’ claims however has ‘no plans’ to publish extra allegations

The Sun has mentioned it has a file “containing serious and wide-ranging allegations” it has obtained about Huw Edwards – “including some from BBC personnel”.

However the newspaper mentioned it has “no plans” to publish additional allegations about the BBC star.

It first reported claims towards an unnamed presenter, saying he had paid a teen tens of hundreds of kilos for sexually express photographs.

Huw Edwards newest: BBC presenter ‘suffering serious mental health issues’

Edwards was named by his spouse as the BBC presenter at the centre of the scandal on Wednesday night – and revealed he was in hospital with “serious mental issues”.

A former editor of The Sun mentioned the paper had “inflicted terror” on Edwards and is now going through a “crisis”.

A spokesperson for the newspaper mentioned it should cooperate with the BBC’s inner investigation course of.

“The allegations published by The Sun were always very serious. Further serious allegations have emerged in the past few days,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“We will provide the BBC team with a confidential and redacted dossier containing serious and wide-ranging allegations which we have received, including some from BBC personnel.”

The Sun claims it didn’t allege criminality

Two police forces have mentioned they don’t seem to be pursuing motion towards Edwards after finding no evidence of criminal offences.

The Sun spokesperson mentioned the newspaper had “at no point” in its authentic story alleged criminality.

The paper “also took the decision neither to name Mr Edwards nor the young person involved in the allegations”, they added.

“Suggestions about possible criminality were first made at a later date by other media outlets, including the BBC,” the spokesperson mentioned.

“From the outset, we have reported a story about two very concerned and frustrated parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of a presenter and payments from him that fuelled the drug habit of a young person.

“We reported that the dad and mom had already been to the police who mentioned that they could not assist. The dad and mom then made a criticism to the BBC which was not acted upon.

“It is now for the BBC to properly investigate.”

BBC says presenter going through ‘but extra allegations’

Separately the BBC reported Edwards was going through “yet more allegations of inappropriate behaviour” – this time in direction of his colleagues on the company.

Two present colleagues and a former BBC workers member mentioned they’d obtained inappropriate messages from the presenter.

One informed BBC News they had been contacted this 12 months with a flirtatious message which referenced their look.

Another mentioned they felt messages they obtained had been an abuse of energy.

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Debate over protection

The disaster surrounding Edwards has sparked a debate about The Sun’s allegations and the BBC response, with some calling the protection an invasion of privacy.

David Yelland, who was editor of The Sun from 1998 to 2003, tweeted: “I wish [Huw Edwards] well. The Sun inflicted terror on Huw despite no evidence of any criminal offence.

“This is not a BBC disaster, it’s a disaster for the paper. Huw’s privateness should now be revered. Social media additionally wants speedy reform.”

Jon Sopel, former North America editor of BBC News, called the scandal “an terrible and stunning episode” and said the presenter’s “difficult non-public life” does not “really feel very non-public now”.

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Former Downing Street head of communications Alastair Campbell mentioned the presenter “is the perfect target for those who would undermine and indeed would like to destroy the BBC”.

“The police having said no action to be taken, whatever he did or did not do is a matter for him and his family, and for the BBC,” he tweeted.

“The obsession with this story has been a further sign of a media that has frankly become weird.”