Huw Edwards - 6 month suspended sentence (pg 107)

[GaudinoMotors]

He should be welcomed back with impunity. We need his gravitas.

 

[BigJoe#1]

Apparently the BBC did try to contact the parents after the initial complaint in May. Once by phone and once by email, but there was no response to either.

They sent an email that wasn't followed up and a few weeks later made a phone call that failed to connect (wrong number? can we question if the email ever arrived - wrong address, easily done)... I think this was of such magnitude that it really should have been given a little more credit that's my opinion but each to their own.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

That and advocating all the cuts they’ve made over the past several years!

I’m not sure a complaint provided by someone that wasn’t the actual victim, given they’re an adult, should have been investigated at all. Surely the first question is does the individual consent to this being looked into.

For obvious reasons, an allegation of child abuse, which as far as I'm aware this was, doesn't require the victim themselves to make the allegation. So it would be entirely right that the BBC had to investigate any allegation made against an employee regardless of who made it.

 

[domalino]

For obvious reasons, an allegation of child abuse, which as far as I'm aware this was, doesn't require the victim themselves to make the allegation. So it would be entirely right that the BBC had to investigate any allegation made against an employee regardless of who made it.

This wasn't an allegation of child abuse. The BBC has been incredibly clear that the complaint made to them in May was not as serious as the allegations in the Sun last Thursday.

They are still obliged to investigate wrongdoing by their employee, but past reaching out to contact the complainant, I'm not sure what else they could actually do.

 

[meltonblue]

For obvious reasons, an allegation of child abuse, which as far as I'm aware this was, doesn't require the victim themselves to make the allegation. So it would be entirely right that the BBC had to investigate any allegation made against an employee regardless of who made it.

It wasn’t though, they never mentioned anything about the victim being underage to the bbc in the initial complaint, it was for the welfare of an adult.

Given that, and the process being it’s not put to the accused until it’s verified, I’m not sure what they could have done.

 

[TinFoilHat]

One thing that's come out of this is that Jeremy Vine is just as vindictive as his sister.

 

[Vic]

No, just dependant on busy cunts needing their pound of flesh.

"The public interest" doesn't mean anything and everything that might interest some of the public.

 

[Phil1]

"The public interest" doesn't mean anything and everything that might interest some of the public.

People conveniently use public interest as and when it suits.

 

[Vic]

The BBC has 23,000 employees. They receive hundreds of complaints a day about their staff, most of which are from cranks and nutters upset that Gary Lineker tweeted something wrong or Doctor Who is too woke.

And that's just the complaints from Tory ministers.

 

[domalino]

And that's just the complaints from Nadine Dorries

Fixed that for you.