And finally
When a convicted sex offender refuses to accept his own irrelevance
Huw Edwards has made another statement.
A bold move from a convicted sex offender who is reported to have actively sought images of young children being harmed, never mind the allegedly grooming a teenage boy to use him as a source of bespoke pornography.
He is said to have ‘parted ways’ with that short-lived PR representative - Barry Tomes - and now seems to be going it alone, dishing out press releases like he has anything at all to say but sorry.
Still, here goes.
“Much has been written and reported in the past week following Channel 5’s one-sided account.
Other opportunities will arise later this year for me to state my case, and to challenge the misleading or fabricated claims made in recent coverage.
A number of serious questions still remain to be answered, and not just by me. It will now take some time for me to produce my own account, and until then I do not intend to comment any further.”
Huw Edwards
Opportunities? If anyone at all is offering him a platform to tell his side of this dreadful story, I’d be surprised. But, in a world where a paedophile has a publicist, I suppose anything’s possible.
“My own account”. His side of this story weighs nothing. It’s worthless. A convicted criminal picking over the details of his behaviour after the fact smacks of an arsonist, picking through the ruins of a building and pointing out individual bricks that he didn’t actually burn.
The building is his reputation at this point. It’s gone.
My best guess is he’ll teach himself editing software and make a podcast in which he can monologue about how he’s the real victim in all this and it was his mental health that made him do it. Just what the world needs: another white guy with an inflated sense of his own importance making a podcast.
His language is the most revealing thing here, desperately cleaving to the terms and tone of a man still in a position of high status. He will not see himself as we now all see him, at the bottom of a deep, deep well.
“A number of serious questions…” He could almost be back behind his desk at Broadcasting House, talking about a government minister or the boss of a water company. Which serious questions, Huw? Let’s start with: Why did you want to see videos of young children in distressing and abusive situations?
Give it up, Huw. We all saw your considerable fall from grace. Any authority you had is gone.
“Sorry”. Go on, try it.
“I’m sorry. I’ll get help and leave you all in peace.”
And that’s all from him.
