The scandal of disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards ' fall from grace is set to be turned into a bombshell documentary, according to reports. The firm behind shows about Myra Hindley and Fred West is said to be ready to produce the programme and has reportedly been interviewing alleged victims of the former newsreader. The company behind the production, Blink Films, is seemingly set for a bidding war once it is complete, with Channel 4 and Netflix said to be among the frontrunners.
Ahead of the production, an insider said: "There is a long line of people who claim to have suffered as a result of Huw’s behaviour." They continued to tell The Sun : "This will see many of them speaking on screen for the first time and it’s likely to produce some particularly shocking new revelations." The company has already produced to documentaries that have aired on ITV .
One focused on serial killers Fred and Rose West, while another showed the awful case of child murderer Myra Hindley. The apparent Edwards documentary comes just a month after the former BBC man, 63, was given a suspended jail sentence . He appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court last month for sentencing after he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children in July.
The disgraced presenter was given just six months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a requirement to complete a sex offender programme. Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring also declined to make him the subject of a Sexual Harm .