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Huw Edwards, who was formerly the top newsreader at the BBC, faces jail after yesterday admitted accessing indecent images of children., an offence that carries a maximum of 10 years in jail.
He received 41 images between December 2020 and August 2021 in a WhatsApp conservation with 25-year-old Alex Williams, who is now a convicted paedophile.
Seven were of the most serious type and two of those feature a child aged between 7 and 9 years old.
Edwards did not make, keep or forward any of the images. During the period, he twice asked not to be sent any underage or illegal images, but only stopped receiving them after the second request and continued speaking to Williams.
Mr Edwards was suspended by the BBC in July 2023 following allegations in The Sun that he'd paid a young person for sexually explicit images, a separate case where no evidence of criminal behaviour was found.
The BBC said yesterday it was ‘shocked’ by the ‘abhorrent behaviour’ revealed in court.
But it admitted knowing of Mr Edwards' arrest for "serious offences" in November 2023
The BBC continued paying Edwards his salary of between 475,000 and 480,000 pounds up until he resigned on medical advice in April, two months before he was charged.
Director General Tim Davie is expected to be challenged on that decision at an emergency meeting demanded by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy.
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