BBC Boss Tim Davie Says Huw Edwards Will Likely Keep £300,000 Gold-Plated Pension
Things are looking ugly for the BBC after their top presenter Huw Edwards fell from from grace. Not only has Edwards admitted to having 41 indecent images of children, it turns out BBC boss Tim Davie knew of his arrest in November for having Category A images – which involve the most serious form of child exploitation. Yet he decided against sacking Huw, who was still paid a whopping £480,000 by the BBC despite his suspension and arrest…
Now Davie has admitted that disgraced Huw will likely get to keep his £300,000-a-year gold-plated pension, funded by taxpayers and those forced to fork out the £169.50 licence fee. After a grilling from Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, Davie admitted the pension scheme is “very difficult to claw back, nigh on impossible…These are unfortunately the specifics of how it works.” The BBC’s slow and weak response to this scandal is a disgrace in itself…