Tim Davie says Edwards 'won't work for BBC again'

The BBC’s manager wide Tim Davie said helium “can’t see” Huw Edwards moving astatine the corp again.

“This antheral has conscionable been convicted of appalling crimes and it’s beauteous straightforward successful my mind, I can’t spot him moving present again,” helium told BBC presenter Amol Rajan astatine the RTS London Convention.

On Monday, disgraced BBC News presenter Edwards was given a a six-month situation sentence, suspended for 2 years, aft helium admitted charges of making indecent images of children.

Mr Davie said "for evident reasons," the erstwhile presenter was improbable to travel backmost to the organsation.

• Four cardinal takeaways from Huw Edwards' sentencing

The tribunal was told connected Monday that Edwards received much than 40 images implicit respective months from a convicted enactment offender – including immoderate showing a unfortunate aged betwixt 7 and nine.

Until past year, helium was the BBC's astir elder quality presenter and often fronted sum of large nationalist events.

Mr Davie said determination was "shock" and "a batch of upset” wrong the BBC implicit Edwards, adding that radical crossed the organisation consciousness “deeply, profoundly fto down”.

But helium insisted it wasn’t astir the BBC, but rather, astir the victims and their families.

Edwards was the BBC's highest-paid journalist, receiving betwixt £475,000 and £479,999 betwixt April 2023 and April 2024.

The BBC has asked him to instrumentality the £200,000 helium earned betwixt his apprehension past November and his resignation this April.

The full contented of wage did not travel up successful tribunal connected Monday.

Addressing the matter, Mr Davie said discussions were ongoing astir getting the wage back.

“We privation the wealth back… we’ve asked for it back,” helium said.

“There’s treatment betwixt ineligible teams, that’s arsenic acold arsenic I tin go.”

Mr Davie was besides asked astir a disciplinary process the BBC launched into Edwards aft the Sun claims past year.

That report, including details of different allegations made astir him, has ne'er been published, starring to accusations of a deficiency of transparency.

"My instincts are ever astir being fair, transparent, arsenic overmuch arsenic we can," Mr Davie said.

"But determination is thing that if you person made an allegation arsenic a disciplinary process, that is not a nationalist matter."

Mr Davie insisted that anyone who came guardant was "taken seriously, they were listened to”.

He besides said the BBC committee needs to “sign off” a reappraisal into workplace civilization which was launched pursuing the Huw Edwards allegations.

The manager wide was besides asked astir whether Edwards volition beryllium removed from the BBC archives.

“We ne'er wholly prohibition and rip idiosyncratic retired of the archive,” helium said.

But helium added: “I’m not seeing a script successful which immoderate Huw Edwards worldly is utilized successful day-to-day programming.”

In July, Edwards pleaded blameworthy to 3 counts of making indecent images of children. Under the law, images tin mean photos oregon clips.

The offences were committed betwixt December 2020 and August 2021.

The justice sentencing him remarked that the erstwhile broadcaster's "long-earned reputation" was "in tatters".

After the sentencing, a BBC spokesperson said the corp was "appalled" by Edwards' crimes.

"He has betrayed not conscionable the BBC, but audiences who enactment their spot successful him.”

Edwards volition beryllium placed connected the enactment offenders' registry for 7 years.

He was besides told to be a enactment offender attraction programme.

On a wholly abstracted matter, Mr Davie was asked astir the probe into Amanda Abbington’s ailment astir her erstwhile Strictly creation spouse Giovanni Pernice.

He didn't springiness a day for erstwhile it would beryllium published, but insisted: “We’re beauteous adjacent to the extremity of that work.”

He was asked whether it would’ve been utile to people it up of the caller bid starting.

“Many things successful beingness would beryllium useful, but we person to bash the process,” helium said.

In June, it was confirmed that Pernice would not instrumentality for the caller series.

It comes aft Abbington made allegations astir however helium treated her connected the show.

Pernice has denied immoderate allegations of abusive oregon threatening behaviour.