BBC Faces Backlash for Allegedly Covering Up Violent Incident

0:00On May 2nd, the BBC is catching heat for allegedly covering up a violent incident where a top presenter broke a female colleague's wrist back around 2014. Bosses knew about the assault that sent her to the hospital, but they never called the police or disciplined the guy he kept working there for years. They had other red flags too, like makeup artists spotting signs of booze and drugs, plus he got arrested ones on something unrelated and walked free. Instead of firing him, management just stuck him on crappy shifts, hoping he'd bounce on his own. MPs are ripping into the BBC now, calling it another classic cover-up in their long list of scandals, from Jimmy Savile to Hugh Edwards and even DJ. Scott Mills Tory MP Greg Stafford said, it beggars belief they didn't act right away on such a serious assault. This comes hot on the heels of fresh drama with Mills, where the BBC knew about a police probe into alleged sex offenses back in 2017, but did nothing to later.

1:00And they kept paying Edwards for months after his arrest on child image charges, he got to suspend its six-month sentence this year. Insiders blamed the BBC's obsession with shielding its rep, but that strategy keeps blowing up in their face, sparking even bigger backlash every time. These stories surface.