Ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children. The former TV star appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court earlier today, where he admitted having 41 indecent images of children, which had been sent to him by another man on WhatsApp.
The former Six O’Clock News host was suspended from the Beeb in July 2023 after sex scandal allegations emerged. He was arrested in November and charged in June. It transpires he had seven category A pictures, 12 category B and 22 category C. Of the most serious kind, category A, the court heard the images were of children aged between 13 and 15 years old. The offences carry a maximum jail sentence of ten years.
Edwards became a household name with his work on the BBC, having presented the News at Ten for 20 years and covered the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
