Jeremy Vine: BBC should clarify if Huw Edwards was asked if he was guilty
The corporation continued to pay him a large salary after it learned he had been arrested.
Jeremy Vine has said the BBC should clarify if Huw Edwards was asked if he was guilty at the time the corporation was informed of his arrest for making indecent images of children.
The BBC confirmed on Wednesday that it knew of the veteran broadcaster’s arrest on “suspicion of serious offences” in November, but continued employing him until April.
Questions have been raised about why he continued to receive his large salary – as the highest-paid newsreader at the corporation – for five months after his arrest.
Vine, who hosts a show on BBC Radio 2, said bosses should confirm if they tried to establish whether or not Edwards was guilty of the crimes he was accused, adding: “You can’t justify paying him beyond November if you know he’s guilty.”
Speaking on his self-titled Channel 5 chat show, Vine said: “We need to find out if BBC said, what (were you arrested) for and are you guilty?
“If he said to them, ‘It’s for these serious offences, but I’m not guilty,’ then I would think you could start to take action to get the money back.
