BBC boss Tim Davie has said he can’t ever see disgraced ex anchor Huw Edwards working for the BBC again. “I can’t see that happening for obvious reasons,” he said. “This man has just been convicted of appalling crimes and it’s pretty straightforward in my mind that I can’t see him working at the BBC again.
” Beleaguered director general Davie made his first public remarks the morning after Edwards, once the highest paid news reporter at the corporation, was sentenced for making indecent images of children . The cache of illegal images, which included videos, were predominantly of children aged between 13 and 15 with one believed to feature as young as 7 also being abused. Davie admitted the scandal had damaged the BBC’s reputation.
“There’s no doubt that an affair like this impacts our reputation and I don’t know yet in terms of the direct impact on trust,” he said. “What I would say is we track it very carefully, we’re very mindful of people. People’s trust in the BBC is essential and hopefully we’ll do the right thing and the public aren’t stupid and they can see when we’re taking the right action and acting in good faith and trying to get through things in a calm and fair manner.
” That course of action will not involve obliterating Edwards — who over the course of his 40-year career at the broadcaster became the face of its news service, reporting on global events including the death of Queen Elizabeth II — from the BBC’s archiv.