July 15th 2023.
Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who was jailed for phone hacking in 2014, is reportedly offering crisis management advice to Huw Edwards' family. Coulson now runs a PR agency and specializes in crisis management for high-profile individuals.
It has been reported that Coulson is helping Vicky Flind, Huw Edwards' wife, draft a statement which was released on Wednesday. In the statement, she named her husband as the figure at the center of the BBC scandal. Flind revealed that her husband was facing serious mental health issues due to the allegations, while also appealing for privacy during his in-patient hospital care.
The Sun has taken the additional step of refraining from publishing any more allegations concerning Edwards, and will instead be passing them over to the BBC for further investigation. Edwards himself has not yet responded to the claims, although he is believed to have discussed them privately with colleagues and former colleagues.
It is not yet known how much of an influence Coulson has had in The Sun’s coverage of the scandal. He is in opposition to Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News UK, and his former romantic partner. The two of them were tried together at the Old Bailey in 2014, with the jury finding Coulson guilty and Brooks innocent.
The News of the World was closed in 2011 as a result of the scandal, costing 200 jobs in the process. Coulson served his sentence and now works in the background to help CEOs and public figures navigate through a crisis without having his role be made public.
Edwards is now faced with a long and costly endeavour to salvage his career, as more claims of potentially inappropriate conduct continue to arise. Despite this, friends of Edwards are confident that he will be able to come back from this and resume his career when his mental health issues have been managed.
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