‘Everyone is raging about it — firstly at Huw, who is a disgrace, secondly that gutless bosses seem unwilling or unable to do anything about it’, rants an insider

BBC staff are furious that bosses have failed to recoup shamed journalist Huw Edwards’s £200,000 salary a year on despite huge cuts.

The news division has said 155 roles will be lost as part of efforts to save £24million.

Huw Edwards leaving court after sentencing.
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BBC staff are furious that bosses have failed to recoup shamed journalist Huw Edwards’s £200,000 salaryCredit: PA

Huw Edwards leaving court.
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Executives formally requested last August that Edwards return wagesCredit: Getty
Executives formally requested last August that former newsreader Edwards, 63, return wages he received after his arrest on paedophile charges.

After a Sun probe, using freedom of information laws, the broadcaster said: “Huw Edwards has not returned any money paid to him by the BBC after his arrest, in respect of any of his work for either BBC public service or the BBC’s commercial operations.

“The BBC has asked for all the money paid to Huw Edwards by the BBC for the period November 2023 (arrest) and April 2024 (resignation) to be returned.”

A BBC insider said: “Everyone is raging about it — firstly at Huw, who is a disgrace, secondly that gutless bosses seem unwilling or unable to do anything about it.”

Edwards left the BBC on “medical grounds” three months before he was charged with having indecent images of children.

The mum who blew the whistle on Edwards after he paid her son £35,000 for sexual pictures in a separate case exposed by The Sun previously told us: “Does this man not have an ounce of shame?

“How can he keep this money after what he’s done?”

The BBC declined to comment.

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Mugshot of Huw Edwards.
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Edwards was arrested in November 2023Credit: PA