Relationship with father among psychological factors cited in Huw Edwards case

Social media and a perception of Oxbridge elitism at the BBC also featured in experts’ reports

Huw Edwards’s downfall was of his own making, the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, concluded in his sentencing remarks, but that was not the entire picture painted by the BBC star in his interviews with forensic medical experts.

The consultant psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist Michael Isaac wrote two reports in which the broadcaster’s father, the Welsh academic Hywel Teifi Edwards, who died in 2010, was pinpointed as the source of some of the mental anguish that led to the criminal behaviour of 2020 to 2021.