The BBC presenter accused of buying sexual photographs of a minor, and whose identity had remained secret until now, is one of its stars: Huw Edwards. This was revealed this Wednesday by the chain itself, which includes a statement from the presenter’s wife.

“Huw suffers from serious mental health problems. As is well documented, he has been treated for severe depression in recent years,” explained his wife, Vicky Flind. “The events of the last few days have made things much worse, he has suffered another serious episode and is now receiving hospital care where will remain for the foreseeable future,” she added in a statement on behalf of her husband.

The woman assures that Edwards will respond to the articles published about him and regrets that his silence since speculation about his identity began has harmed his colleagues.

On the other hand, the London Metropolitan Police (Met) see no evidence of crime against Edwards. The Met Specialized Crime Command has announced that your investigation is closed after having spoken with the different parties involved and authorizing the BBC to reopen its internal review of the case, uncovered on the 7th by the tabloid newspaper the sun.

A scandal that has shaken the corporation

The scandal has completely shaken the corporation, despite the fact that until today it was not known that the presenter affected by the accusations is Edwards, 61 years old., the man who was chosen to unveil the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II and one of the great names of the entity’s news.

It has been Edwards’ wife, Vicky Flind, who has finally revealed the identity of the “BBC presenter” who had been denounced by parents of a 20 year old for having allegedly paid his son for three years in exchange for him sending him sexual photos.

After the article published by the sun., which was denied by the young man himself and in which his parents said that he had collected up to 35,000 pounds over the years with which he paid for his drug addiction, another person in his 20s contacted the BBC to denounce that he received threatening messages from the same presenter.

To this has been added a new accusation in the sun from a 23-year-old who claimed that Edwards had violated the confinement to meet him in February 2022, and some messages that the presenter allegedly sent to a 17-year-old minor on Instagram in 2019.