The corporation labelled Edwards complaints ‘non-high-risk’

A VICTIM of disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards has lashed out at the BBC after it emerged bosses were warned of his behaviour as far back as 2012.

Heavily redacted emails have shown they received a complaint about the ex-News at Ten host, 63, amid the fallout over the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.

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A Huw Edwards victim has slammed the BBC after claims bosses were warned about him in 2012Credit: PA

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The BBC had labelled the 2012 complaint against Edwards as ‘non-high-risk actions’Credit: Getty
It also emerged execs were forced to keep a spreadsheet on their scandal-hit stars as they were so deluged by grievances.

Edwards was sentenced last year to six months’ jail, suspended for two years, for three charges of making indecent images of children.

But emails show that an hour before his sentencing, a message was sent to BBC director-general Tim Davie from an ex-Beeb employee revealing a complaint had been made about Edwards’ conduct in 2012.

The author warned it was “an area of potential risk to the corporation” but “not necessarily a criminal allegation”.

They wrote the complaint was “most likely listed under the so-called ‘C-List’ if it’s anywhere”.

That is a reference to a spreadsheet of claims against BBC presenters created after Savile’s crimes were exposed a year after his death.

The C category was for “non-high-risk actions” — cases which are not necessarily criminal, but included allegations of bullying and harassment.

Davie replied three minutes later saying his team was “looking into all the past allegations”.

A TV producer who was harassed by Edwards urged BBC bosses to finally “come clean” on the scandal.

Edwards begged to meet him during lockdown and even invited him to his BBC-funded Windsor hotel at Prince Philip’s funeral in April 2021.

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He told The Sun: “These emails show the BBC has been mounting a full-scale covert operation to keep the details under wraps.

“The BBC has never wanted the truth to come out and people have had to push very hard for it to do so. But now BBC bosses should just come clean about the whole thing.

“For an organisation that constantly puts itself on a moral pedestal of truth, the lengths the BBC goes to in order to cover things up are staggering.

“The fact there were details of his unacceptable behaviour in 2012 is shocking — the BBC acted all along as if no one knew.”

The emails were released after a Freedom of Information battle by The Sunday Times.

The producer gave evidence to the corporation’s internal investigation into its star in 2023 after The Sun revealed a presenter — later named as Edwards — paid a vulnerable teen £35,000 for sex snaps.

He has had no feedback from the BBC, which has also never published its internal review.

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Edwards was sentenced last year to six months’ jail, suspended for two years, for three charges of making indecent images of childrenCredit: The Times