Huw Edwards, long the BBC’s most famous journalist and presenter, admitted on Wednesday July 31 to possessing dozens of child pornography images received by email.
A year after the scandal that led to his removal from the airwaves and his resignation in April, Huw Edwards, 62, appeared in a dark suit and sunglasses at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London.
During a brief hearing, the man who presented the BBC’s evening news for twenty years soberly answered “guilty” to the reading by Judge Paul Goldspring of the three charges of “making indecent images of children” – which may mean the possession of electronic images.
Specifically, these are 41 images, some of which concern a child aged seven or nine, received on WhatsApp messaging between December 2020 and August 2021. As a result of this guilty plea, the sentence will be handed down later without trial. The journalist remains free under judicial supervision pending a further hearing on 16 September.
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