Huw Edwards avoids jail time over child abuse images

To Westminster magistrates’ court where Huw Edwards has this afternoon been handed a suspended jail sentence of six months imprisonment, suspended for two years after pleading guilty in July to making indecent images of children. The former TV star admitted to having 41 indecent images of children, which had been sent to him by another man on WhatsApp between 2020 and 2021. Edwards will also be put on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.

It transpires that the ex-Beeb man paid a student hundreds of pounds, and even gifted him a Christmas present, after he was sent indecent images of children. 25-year-old Alex Williams, also from Wales, was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence earlier this year after pleading guilty to seven offences related to possessing and distributing indecent images – some of which he sent to the News at Ten presenter. Today’s proceedings found that the former TV star paid Williams up to £1,500 while the younger Welshman provided pornographic material to Edwards – revealing too that when Edwards was asked by Williams if he wanted sexual images of a person whose ‘age could be discerned as being between 14 and 16’, the presenter responded: ‘Yes xxx.’