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I’m not sure that there is confirmation that the photos were of the other party. Only that he supplied them. Stand to be corrected of course.

Explicit photos under 18 are illegal, there is no evidence they exist though beyond the sun accusations and with the police saying they have spoken to all parties involved including the parents and no evidence of anything illegal taking place, it appears to be the sun playing fast and loose with the truth and an invasion of privacy, is all very max mosely and news of the world over again

the sun playing fast and loose with the truth

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It's all quite meta isn't it?

As the story has developed, the story itself seems to be the main story.

That said I heard a podcast pundit basically say, given a Sun reader brought them this story they'd struggle to turn it down and risk it going elsewhere and have it said they wouldn't print it.

Yes the BBC wanting to appear impartial seem to of gone in to overdrive leading with it each night and massively amplifying it, even now if I look on the app the top 4 stories are about it. Thier HR department is going to have fun both leading a misconduct investigation and providing support to an employee they have likely helped hospitalise.

The suggestion on R4 yesterday was that the big name presenters have not bringing the corporation in to disrupte in their contacts which is where I assume misconduct comes in.

Sun tactics:

Insinuate it wrong for a headline, get the ultimate aim of outing the person and offer a retraction on the rest.

Has Edwards actually been outed for anything? Anything at all?

It sounded like a loving farewell obituary on radio 4 earlier

Maybe H.E. got scammed by an entrepreneurial teenager selling him photos from the internet.

Did he buy any photos? What has he actually done? The story's so huge that I can't work out what's what.

More people coming forward. Surely jumping on the bandwagon

A lot of the rumour mill stuff I saw folk were jumping to Huw’s defence, saying they didn’t believe it, crying libel at people that were naming him so best case scenario might be that the Sun readership/popularity/whatever takes another hit with them going off half cocked.

Is #MeHuw trending yet?

This kid's mom is a Sun reader who says her son is doing smack because he got money from selling pics on onlyfans (or wherever it was) and he might have been 17 when he did it. It sounded like a nothing burger from the start.

Allegedly he was aggressive and sweary to someone who threatened to out him. That's about it.

So the story is that he's married to a woman and looks at pictures of men. Whoop de do.

Not sure to neg or positive rep for that.

Same 'news' paper that had pics of Sam fox when she was how old? How much did they pay again?

Also the news was 16 year old has big tits.

And those pictures published on her 16th birthday. So contract negotiated and pictures taken while she was 15.

Bit of an urban myth that one. She was born in April '66 and her first Page 3 pictures were published in Feb '83, so she was 16 and 10 months old when the first Page 3 photos were published.

The law that made it illegal for photos of under 18 year olds was only brought in in 2003 (Sexual Offences Act 2003) and isn't retrospective.

I don’t think anyone here named him but also pretty sure the general vibe has been that this whole thing is fucking stupid?

Someone did, the Christian name is distinctive. The general vibe was that it was nonsense, unless referring to Andrew Windsor when it becomes noncence.

I saw three that did, though more people deleted/edited posts, so it could’ve been more.

So just a slow Tuesday at the bbc

This should be the end of the The Sun right? Both Huw and the BBC should be able to sue them in to oblivion. I can hope anyway.