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The BBC presenter has been suspended over the claims

The wife of BBC news presenter Huw Edwards has named her husband as the network star who is embroiled in a shock sex photo scandal.

Events leading to suspension of BBC presenter started in May when family member made complaint

The corporation has said no attempts to contact the complainant were made between June 6 and July 7.

Building to make a complaint about the behaviour of bbc presenter. the following day the complainant contacted bbc audience services who pass the information onto the corporate investigations team. they assess that the information did not and allegation of criminality, but merited investigation, on the same day they made checks to verify the identity of the complainant, something that is standard procedure. it was nearly three weeks later, having received no response to the e—mail, that they c...

The concerns of duty of care, privacy, all those things ive talked about, i dont think you take that complaint direct to a presenter. if you just work that through, if anything that comes through or anything that hasnt been verified just gets brought in front of someone, i would say its important at that point to validate that, to have not just the audience services team but the specialists talk to that individual, understand their concerns and go through that process. but there were only two at...

The BBC has paused the investigation while police conduct scoping work relating to the allegations.

BBC boss Tim Davie held a press conference today – amid the BBC presenter scandal - following the release of the corporation’s annual report of top earners

The BBC said the Metropolitan Police has asked that it pauses its investigations into the allegations "while the police scope future work."

The broadcaster has released a timeline detailing when it received the complaint, when it launched an investigation and when it contacted the Metropolitan Police.