Ex-BBC presenter pleads guilty to making indecent pictures of children
Al Jazeera
Huw Edwards, once the broadcaster’s highest-paid journalist, faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards, once the broadcaster’s star news anchor, has pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent pictures of children.
Edwards admitted during a hearing at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday that he had received 41 indecent images of children on the messaging platform WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021.
The 62-year-old, who was the BBC’s highest-paid journalist, faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a minimum of 12 months.
Judge Paul Goldspring said Edwards would be sentenced on September 16, and that “all options”, including an immediate prison sentence, would be considered.
During the 25-minute hearing, prosecutor Ian Hope said Edwards had been sent a total of 377 sexually explicit images by an adult male on WhatsApp – 41 of these were considered indecent, illegal images of children.