Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pushed for a knighthood for serial child sex abuser Jimmy Savile, seen here together at a 1980 fundraising event for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Elizabeth Haigh – The Daily Mail July 31, 2024
The BBC has been rocked by paedophile scandals in recent years stretching back decades as flagship faces including Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall hid a secret dark side.
Today the corporation’s troubles deepened as former face of BBC News Huw Edwards pleaded guilty to making vile pictures of children.
But he is just the latest in a long series of paedophiles who have worked at the BBC, many of whom have been exposed following the Savile scandal which rocked the corporation in the early 2010s.
The reputation of the BBC has been marred by one paedophile scandal after another dating back over half a century.
Here MailOnline takes a look at the worst scandals surrounding the corporation.
Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards, 62, today pleaded guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children. Click to enlarge
Edwards, 62, kept seven category ‘A’ images of the very worse kind on his phone and shared them on WhatsApp with other child sex offenders.
The veteran news broadcaster, who announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II and presented coverage of her funeral had a total of 41 foul pictures.
The sick child porn images showed youngsters aged between seven and 14, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard, with several of the worst images depicting children under nine.
His career looks to be over – and he faces up to ten years in jail, although he likely to escape custody because of prison overcrowding.
The father-of-five has now moved out of the family home in Dulwich after separating from his wife. He has been living in a flat in Earlsfield, south west London.
The Welshman resigned from the BBC three months ago after a glittering career spanning almost 40 years.
Surrounded by police officers, Edwards arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court wearing black sunglasses, a blue tie, white shirt and black suit.
Edwards, of Wandsworth, southwest London, spoke to confirm his date of birth, address and admit the three charges.
He kept seven category A images, the most serious classification of indecent images, on a phone.
Edwards also made 12 category B images and 22 category C images. The offences are contrary to sections 1(1)(a) and 6 of the Protection of Children Act 1978.
Category A involves images involving penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal or sadism; Category B covers images which show non-penetrative sexual activity; while Category C is for indecent images not within categories B or C.
Edwards presented the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and Platinum Jubilee in 2022, the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (now the Prince and Princess of Wales) in 2011 and also the funeral of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 2021.
Jimmy Savile
Jimmy Savile sporting his OBE at Buckingham Palace 1972. Click to enlarge
The BBC’s most prolific paedophile scandal concerned presenter Jimmy Savile, who died before allegations of his sexual abuse of young children became widely known.
He faced repeated allegations during his life but refuted them, and was the subject of two police investigations – although neither led to charges.
In 2009 Savile famously defended viewers of child pornography, claiming they ‘didn’t do anything wrong’.
After his death in 2011 Newsnight drew up a report on Savile’s alleged offences, including interviewing survivors, but it was never published.
The following year ITV revealed details of allegations against Savile concerning up to ten women, one of whom was 14 at the time.
As more victims came forward the BBC faced immense scrutiny over how Savile was permitted to abuse girls and women for decades, including those who were seriously ill in hospital.
It is thought up to 450 young people were assaulted by the presenter.
Police recorded 199 crimes in 17 police force areas in which Savile was a suspect, among them 31 allegations of rape.
The crimes stretched 1955 to 2009 and allegations included the abuse of desperately ill children and necrophilia with corpses at included Leeds General Infirmary mortuary.
BBC bosses were accused of staging various cover-ups to protect Savile, who committed the offences at hospitals and locations across the country including BBC Television Centre.
Chris Denning
Chris Denning, one of the original Radio 1 presenters, was repeatedly found guilty of various child sex offences until his death in 2022.
He was a member of the paedophile ring the Walton Hop in the 1970s and was first convicted for gross indecency and indecent assault in 1974.
Escaping a jail sentence the first time, the Where It’s At presenter was put behind bars for 18 months in 1985 for gross indecency with a child.
Three years later, he was jailed for three years in 1988 for indecent assault on a 13-year-old boy and possession of indecent photographs.
In 2000, Denning was charged with offences in the Czech Republic and convicted of abusing seven boys under 15.
He was released from prison in 2001, before returning to the UK in 2005, where he was arrested at Heathrow and admitted five charges of indecent assault of boys aged under 16. Denning was jailed for four years.
In 2008, he was extradited from Britain to Slovakia, where he was jailed for five years for producing child pornography.
In 2014 Denning was jailed for 13 years after he admitted to a total to 40 sexual offences committed from 1967 to 1987 relating to 26 male victims, the youngest of whom was nine years old.
In 2016, Denning was given another 13 years after pleaded guilty to 21 sex offences against 11 boys between 1969 and 1986, the youngest of whom was aged eight.
Jonathan King
Jonathan King was convicted of sexual offences against five boys aged 14 and 15
Presenter and singer-singwriter Jonathan King was another member of the Walton Hop with Denning and rose to fame with his hit song, Everyone’s Gone to the Moon.
The 1980s saw him in prominent roles on the BBC including on Top of the Pops.
But in 2001 King’s success ended as he was convicted of sexual offences committed between 1983 and 1987 against five boys aged 14 and 15, for which he was jailed for seven years.
Several other trials either collapsed or King was not convicted.
After his release he published several books and still writes a column for prisoner magazine Inside Time.
Chris Langham
Actor Chris Langham, who starred in the BBC’s hit series The Thick of It as cabinet minister Hugh Abbott, became a familiar face – and voice – on the BBC after featuring in a series of radio shows and TV series.
Langham, 75, was named Best Comedy Actor in the 2005 British Comedy Awards and won the Best Comedy Performance award for his role in The Thick of It.
But in 2005 the actor was arrested by Kent Police as part of Operation Ore, which targeted credit-card customers paying to access indecent and abusive images of children on the internet.
In 2007 he was found guilty of downloading 15 child sexual abuse images and videos.
Langham was sentenced to ten months in prison and placed on the sex offender’s list for ten years.
His trial heard that one of the videos showed the ‘sadistic brutalisation of an eight-year-old girl.’ The victim was from the UK and showed ‘graphic detail’ of ‘serious sexual offences’ against her.
Langham was sentenced to ten months in prison and was placed on the sexual offenders register for ten years. His sentence was reduced to six months on appeal.
Last year the BBC was criticised for putting all the shows of ‘In The Thick of It’ back in on the BBC iPlayer.
Stuart Hall
Presenter Stuart Hall first worked his way up the BBC’s ranks by presenting a range of regional programmes in the northwest of England.
His big break came in 1972, when he started presenting ‘It’s a Knockout’ on BBC 1. He fronted the prgramme for ten years before becoming the original host of A Question of Sport.
Hall was even given an OBE in the 2012 New Year’s honours.
But that same year saw his first accuser contact a journalist and claim she had been groomed and sexually abused by Hall in the 1970s. She said she wanted to come forward after the Jeremy Savile scandal and amid anger at his OBE.
In December 2012 police arrested Hall and he was charged with counts of indecent assault against a 16 or 17-year-old in 1974, a nine-year-old girl in 1983 and a 13-year-old in 1984.
Just a month later in January 2013, Hall was charged with raping a 22-year-old woman in 1976 and indecently assaulting ten more girls, aged from 9 to 17 years old, between 1967 and 1986.
In April 2013, Hall pleaded guilty to 14 charges of indecent assault against 13 girls aged between nine and 17.
In October of the same year police confirmed he had been charged with 16 further offences, including the rape of a 12-year-old girl.
He admitted one charge, was convicted of two counts of indecent assault against a 13-year-old but not guilty of 15 further charges.
In 2013 he was jailed for 30 months before a judge at his second trial jailed him for two-and-a-half years. He has since been released from prison.
Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris attends Southwark Crown Court with his wife, in wheelchair in 2014, where he faced 12 sex offence charges. Click to enlarge
The following year children’s presenter and entertainer Rolf Harris was jailed five years and nine months after he was convicted of 12 charges of indecent assault against four girls – including one aged seven.
Harris, who was Australian, launched his career making songs and soon became a UK TV personality through shows such as Animal Hospital.
He even hosted an educational programme for five to eight year olds in which he advised them on how to avoid situations where they might be vulnerable to sexual abuse.
But his prominent career at the BBC came to an end after being charged with nine counts of indecent assault dating to the 1980s, involving two girls between 14 and 16 years old, and four counts alleging production of indecent child images in 2012.
He was later also charged with three further charges of sexual assault. The CPS said that the new charges were of alleged assault against females aged nineteen in 1984, aged seven or eight in 1968 or 1969, and aged fourteen in 1975.
Harris was ultimately convicted of all 12 charges of indecent assault and sentenced to five years and nine months in prison.
In 2014 Vanessa Feltz also accused Harris of sexual assault when she interviewed him live on air, and Linda Nolan also claimed he groped her when she was 15.
In 2017, one conviction was overturned concerning an alleged assault on an eight-year-old girl on the grounds it was unsafe.
ROTHSCHILDS BBC
in the run up to ww 2 rothschild took over the BBC
Rothschild was a senior MI 5 man and with winston churchill our biggest traitors
secretly working for russian communism
The Cambridge traitors said to be five but in fact many more than that
were all given leters of recommendation from rothschild doe intelligence work the military weapons industries but mainly the BBC
Rothschild chose his left wingers from the homosexual community, many had criminal records against children such as Allan Turing. These letters were in the MI 5 restricted section until Tony Blair had them shredded
Rothschild said in the long march for world communism, homosexuals would lead the way
the BBC is part of MI5 and before working there you are closely vetted, so any sexual abnormalities would be known, sir anthony blunt would take his young boys from care homes to the queens mother
so she knew and so did the other royals
our king mixed with some abominable people
This website broke the news about who saville really was the day after his death and also Lord Mountbatten both very sick individuals
The BBC knew about all this sickos stephen fry paul gambacinni philip scholfield boy geaorge
all of them yet turned a blind eye
and they want us to paya licence fee to watch these folk who abuse our kids ?
no way
Wednesday 31 July 2024
BBC is run by ISRAEL?
Aangirfan@Aangirfan
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-07-28/bbc-news-israel-propaganda/
‘The BBC’s evening news entirely ignored the fact that those killed by the blast are a dozen Syrians, not Israeli citizens, and that for decades the surviving Syrian population in the Golan, most of them Druze, has been forced to live unwillingly under an Israeli military occupation.
‘I suppose mention of this context might complicate the story Israel and the BBC wish to tell – and risk reminding viewers that Israel is a belligerent state occupying not just Palestinian territory but Syrian territory too (not to mention nearby Lebanese territory).’
More dead children. More BBC ‘news’ channelling Israeli propaganda as its own
Forget a 10-month genocide in Gaza. Only when Israel can exploit the deaths of Syrians living under its military occupation are we supposed to start worrying about the ‘consequences’.
The BBC has been a rothschild propaganda outlet since the mid 30s as is Rupert Murdoch and Reuters
Was it not Starmer, then the DPP, who secured Saville’s release?
there isa saying that if you remember the 1950s sexual revolution, you cant have been there
It was a time of psychedelic drugs free love and Carnaby st were pushing unisex clothes
face make up for men, and kids were so mixed up about their sexual identities
You could not tell the boys from the girls, the ” mods” were fashion victims in their feminine clothes
and riding their little motor scooters, the term Mods was a corruption of hoMOsexual Deviant
not all were but they all looked it, known as nancy boys, graffiti seen one wall summed it up
scooter boys
sqoterboys
see queer boys.
The media was really pushing the same agenda we see now with the LBGT crowd
Tony Blair while in office paid out of our taxes for gay parades homosexual marches and 6 extreme homosexual magazines
all showing pictures of naked boys, not men.
So much feminine hormone is put in our food and drinking water that fish in the sea are changing sex
Just like in the 1960s they want us all homosexual
A woman in the USA sued the government as she could not find a husband, she said all the men she met were perverts
and this is important subliminals put on TV especially the soaps to turn people this way
Huw Edwards is the latest TV personality to fall victim to subliminal programme i feel there wil be many more
as Greville Janner said ” the day will come when every man will have his own little bumbadillo” ( rent boy)
that day may not be far away
sorry i am partially sighted
the date should read 1860s not 1950s
for the sexual revolution
thanks
Outside the old HQ, Broadcasting House, stands a statue, the work of Eric Gill. Gill died around 1940 but when his diaries were published, they showed him boasting about raping his two young daughters, having an affair with his Sister and the family dog. The statue is supposed to represent Prospero and Ariel, from Shakepeare’s The Tempest but actually resembles an act of Child Molestation, in progress. Ironically and coincidentally, the Ariel figure bears a resemblance to Jimmy Savile.It is very fitting that this statue is so prominently displayed above the BBC HQ. Other BBC nonces include John Peel and Clement Freud, the latter had a friendship with the McCann’s. Pedoes are an important feature in the British Establishment and are well represented att the BBC.
“The BBC’s most prolific paedophile scandal concerned presenter Jimmy Savile, who died before allegations of his sexual abuse of young children became widely known.”
Oh yes it was widely known. The scum at the top knew and did nothing about it.
Yes, the BBC is child molester central … but it could only do this with government assistance – both passive and active. Jimmy Saville, Cyril Smith and many others were all known to the authorities for decades.
There have been murmurs of depravity about this pompous imbecile for years…in fact he was named years ago as being yet another BBc nonce..but that one seemed to fizzle out…yet this time they have hooked the swine…
Probably to keep the lid on an even bigger scandal..
…the BBc is quite obviously some form of trafficking organization staffed on the whole by demented harridans and sexual deviants.. that evidently ‘selects’ for these characteristics…
no doubt working for the pink nonces that own the Septic Isles (and we know who they are)…and masquerading as the ‘nations’ broadcaster…
what a sick joke..All of it..
The BBC has an effect on people: I noticed that even the main Radio 3 presenter went gradually more camp and feeble, and a good historian of music is featuring two Lesbians from the Twentieth Century
If all it takes to “capture the trust of the British public” is some grouchy Welsh Windbag reading The State-Authorised (((News))) from a teleprompter…
then the situation is even more dire than ‘yours truly’ imagined!! 🙄
Yeah yeah yeah,
You mean those known, who were thrown under the bus.
(The statue pretty much gave it all away as to their agendas/mindset)
Just like the thing that sank the SS Olympic, tip of the ice burg…or was it an ice burg ??????
And 10 to 1 they’re all Roman Catholics.
Thatcher’s cabinet was filled with perverts and Saville was a regular at her Christmas dinner. Isn’t it about time Truthseeker stopped giving the Crowley pedo cultist Nico X comment space.
I’m not a Brit, so I’m sure some English guy would know more about these various pedo characters listed here, but if they’re supposed to be ‘white men’ isn’t it odd they’re all roman catholics? I thought the Anglican Church was the State church–you’d think most or all of these white celebrities/media figures/athletes would be Anglicans instead of mackerel snappers..
in the 90ties I several times listened on TALK UK on
middlewave to the moderator Cesar the Geezer . probably
a greek . he was very engaged in his private life with
british suiciders he tried to help + he ha a very honest
direct language some english (or jewish) intelectual assholes
did not like + they smeared him to his bosses . so they fired
him . I liked him + since I myself was a victim of 10 years
of deutsche (no germans in my eyes) intrigants/conspirators
I felt very much with him . since I know how the false british
society keeps truth under the cover + in germany is only
little better , I think many of his suiciders can be from this
former violated orfans . the british society was already false
since Queen Victorias times , from that spirit of times stems
JACK THE RIPPER . only if you have been self a victim of
a false society you bcan understand their rotteness . and
therefore for their rottenes I pleed Europs must die for their
rottenes ! maybe islam will help .
Notwithstanding silly tarts like the Daily Dingbat’s Elizabeth Haigh here.. clutching her pearl-strings in horror….
I’d think anyone with an ounce of “observational ability” would have expected nothing less – after all, there’s a looo…ong lineage! – than the sort of depravity exhibited here by the BBC’s most “trusted” – not to mention highest-paid! – telepromter-reader.. 🙄
@Chesterton
What’s your take on Esther Rantzen — Savile’s pal — and all that “Childline” business?
“She told Channel 4 News: “If anybody had had concrete evidence, I think and hope the police would have been called in. But all they had was gossip – and gossip isn’t evidence.”
Abuse campaigner Shy Keenan, writing in The Sun newspaper, subsequently claimed that, using a different name, she had told Rantzen 18 years earlier of allegations that she had heard about Savile. Rantzen has denied hearing specific allegations and said she had no recollection of a conversation with Keenan.
Writing for The Daily Telegraph before the broadcast, Katy Brand also criticised Rantzen for failing to act on rumours she had heard about Savile. Pete Saunders, chief executive of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, at Keenan’s request, temporarily asked for all references to Rantzen to be removed from the charity’s website, but subsequently defended Rantzen and said she would continue as a patron.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Rantzen#Savile_child_abuse_allegations
nickZ is another cass sunstein agent or christian nutter
Never trust anyone who is anti-Nico X. They’re all nutjobs.
more slander from the nutter nickz claiming Crowley was a pedo. Not true, more Christian-Commie defamation against englands greatest son.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are the big guns behind woke movement.
Arrested For Accusing Bill Gates Of Epstein Connections – Peter Flaherty Reacts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-3VHtfT5kc
Anti JHWH– I think of Jack the Ripper as a ceremonial milestone for the Masons, who went Satanist in England that year, 1888. For the USA it was 1840
@Lewis Jones
I’m fairly certain JtR was Aaron Kosminski
working for the BBC i would have ben surprised if Huw Edwards was nota child molester or poof
HUW EDWARDS
as soon as the headlines said Huw Edwards in sex scandal
we all thought yeah hews welsh hes been at the sheep
Sheep shagging holidays are available in wales and protected by the LBGT crowd under freedom of sexuality
A btochure is available fromMichael Ranger
Rhoslan
Groeslon
Caernarvon
N Wales Sheep have been seen as a sexual delicacy in wales for many years
and if you met any welsh women you will understand why
Top Photo caption;
“There you go…. there’s a nice big check for you Jimmy….
just don’t let on about all the woofters, poofters, nonces & ponces that’ve you’ve recruited from the Conservatives to “lend a helping hand” with your … ahemm… “charity”… (cough! .. cough!)…. Leon Brittan sends his warmest regards….”
@ Simon…
Fester Rancid worked in procurement, of course they all close ranks when people start to ask the pertinent questions.. that’s part of the MO… that and being chosen…think Greville Janner, Britten etc…also the best cover stories are humanitarian and charitable because Evil knows that these are the best camouflage.. look at the UN for reference…
such high ideals…meh.. all inversion..
There’s a couple of important and interesting things… firstly the BBc in the sixties sent certain diddlers to ‘therapy’ (probably Tavistock affiliates with spooky quacks), Savile amongst them…so undoubtedly the top brass knew all about their proclivities….and they would.. being public school boys and partial to a bit of buggery themselves…Secondly Savile was alluded to as a predator by, of all imbeciles, Johnny ‘Rotten’ Lydon in the seventies on the Bill Grundy show… so it was an open secret in the ‘Biz’…
…the ‘Pistols’ being a manufactured band and being on that ‘treadmill’ they were warned about how it worked..so to speak..
then of course Keith Cheggerz chuglose, brilliantly rehabilitated by Ricky Gervais, alluded to the pink mafia that ran Brittens Buggering company before being fired..and he was probably being charitable in his description…
Correction: it was 1820 for the USA and I wondered if COVID, 2020, was them celebrating the bicentennial
Much crap spoken and wringing of woke hands about Edwards. If his behaviour was in breach of contract, at the time that it occurred then that should provide a timeline from which all benefits and salary are forfeit.
It is tax payers money after all.
So, BBC, take action, Civil Recovery if neccesary, but get the money back, ask The Sun newspaper for help if you find it difficult!
Thanks Chesterton…
I was thinking that Childline was a means of “tipping off” TPTB via Rantzen; that certain kids were “naming names”, and therefore the necessary pre-emptive actions could be taken. You are suggesting that maybe Childline might have been used to actually “talent spot” other victims?