Without getting into the specifics of Nev's case (I assume the name is Ok as it was on the telly)
I can honestly say that there was NO pressure from operational management to not write up problems with the aeroplanes in the time that I was there.
On several occasions it was put to the crews that they were indeed required to write things up in order to ge them fixed.
One of the biggest problems that existed was that people whinged about things not getting fixed, and you went back into the tech logs and there was no record of the particular fault that they were whinging about having ever been written up.
There was a lot of "everyone knows", but if it aint in writing it doesn't exist.
Again this isn't a comment either way on the case at hand just a point to remember.