Ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards arrives at court to face indecent images charges
Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has arrived at court to face charges of making indecent images of children.
The 62-year-old is alleged to have committed three offences between December 2020 and April 2022.
The veteran broadcaster is accused of having had 37 photographs on WhatsApp, including six of the most serious type.
Edwards arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court shortly before 9.15am on Wednesday wearing a dark suit, blue tie and sunglasses.
He refused to answer any questions from the journalists present.
Photographers were knocked to the ground as they scrambled to get to the broadcaster as he entered the court building flanked by police officers.
Charged
The Metropolitan Police said he was arrested in November last year and charged on June 26.
According to the charge sheet, Edwards is accused of having six category A images, 12 category B pictures and 19 category C photographs on WhatsApp – offences contrary to sections 1(1)(a) and 6 of the Protection of Children Act 1978.
The images are alleged to have been shared via WhatsApp.
If found guilty, he could receive a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Edwards was one of the BBC’s most prominent and highest-paid news anchors before he left the corporation in April on medical grounds.
During his career, he fronted BBC’s News At Ten for 20 years and anchored coverage of major national events including announcing Queen Elizabeth II’s death on the BBC and presenting coverage of her funeral.
He was previously the BBC’s highest-paid newsreader, with a pay bracket of £475,000 to £479,999 for the year 2023/24 for 160 presenting days, BBC One news specials, election specials and other television programming, according to the corporation’s latest annual report.
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Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty, so he will be on bail until he is sentenced in a few months.
I wonder will the BBC now ask for some of Huw’s 1/2 million pound salary back for bring the BBC’s name into disrepute?
I like others am not happy that my hard earned license fee is being given over to criminals.
I have just seen details of what he has been charged with, some of the children were aged between 9 and 12 and were the in the Category A images, this is the worst category, this element of the story is not being reported by the BBC.
Lets hope he does some serious time IF he is guilty…
But I am not very confident the elites in the UK always escape true justice..