Huw Edwards hospitalised following UK headlines, allegations.

Veteran UK news presenter Huw Edwards has been hospitalised following a week of headlines and allegations surrounding his personal life.

Detectives from the Met police ended their assessment into the original allegations and determined there was no evidence of a criminal offence. South Wales Police also said no further action would be taken.

Edwards’s wife, Vicky Flind, issued a statement on his behalf on Wednesday, disclosing her husband was “suffering from serious mental health issues” and “receiving inpatient hospital care, where he will stay for the foreseeable future” as she asked for privacy for her family.

Here are elements as stated by BBC:

For twenty years, Huw Edwards anchored the BBC’s flagship News at Ten programme – watched by millions each weeknight for the latest on the day’s news.

But now he has been identified as the presenter at the centre of allegations about his conduct, following five days of speculation and mounting claims published across Britain’s media, including by colleagues at BBC News.

As the BBC’s most senior news anchor, Edwards has been a fixture of some of the UK’s most historic national moments.

The 61-year-old was the person who informed millions of television viewers across the world that Queen Elizabeth II had died.

On Friday, the Sun newspaper published a story that said an unidentified presenter for the BBC was accused of paying thousands of pounds to a young person, now 20, over a number of years, for explicit photographs.

In an interview, the mother of the young person expressed her concern at the payments and her worry they were funding her child’s crack cocaine habit.

Over subsequent days, a drip-feed of further allegations were published by the Sun, and then by BBC News, which reports independently on the BBC as if it were any other organisation.

On Sunday, the BBC admitted it received a complaint linked to the Sun’s initial allegations seven weeks before they were pursued by the newspaper and that it had suspended a male member of staff.

The next day, a lawyer for the young person involved said the Sun’s story was “rubbish” and denied anything criminal took place.

It was not long before further, and different, allegations involving the presenter were made in reports by the Sun and by BBC News.

These included claims of “menacing” messages to a person in their 20s, a visit to another person during a coronavirus lockdown, and inappropriate messages to a BBC staff member.

A series of developments came within a ten-minute period on Wednesday as the Metropolitan Police said it had found no evidence of criminality in its review of evidence, and the BBC said its internal corporate investigation would continue as a result.

Then Huw Edwards’ identity as the BBC presenter was confirmed in a statement issued on his behalf by his wife.

Huw Edwards will respond to stories published about him when he is able to do so, his wife has said.

The BBC has said its corporate investigation will continue now that the police have ruled out criminality.

But questions remain for the BBC in what it knew of the allegations, and when, and over its response to them.

The Sun newspaper has said it will co-operate with the BBC, and that it has no plans to publish further allegations about Edwards.

“This remains a very complex set of circumstances,” BBC boss Mr Davie has said.

Additional source: Guardian