Huw Edwards: Your reputation ‘is in tatters’, judge tells ex-BBC newsreader

Huw Edwards: Your reputation ‘is in tatters’, judge tells ex-BBC newsreader.

• Huw Edwards given six-month suspended jail sentence for child abuse image offences.

• He is also required to complete a sex offender programme, and will be on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.

• In July Edwards admitted having 41 such images which were sent to him on WhatsApp.

• The sentencing hearing is told Edwards, 63, paid another man, paedophile, Alex Williams, over £1,000 for gifts and presents in exchange for the images.

• The estimated age of the children in most pictures was between 13 and 15, but one was aged between seven and nine.

• BBC says: “We are appalled by his crimes. He has betrayed not just the BBC, but audiences who put their trust in him”

Huw Edwards Bio:

Bridgend born and father of five children, Edwards, is a former news presenter from Wales. He served as the principal presenter of BBC News at Ten, the BBC’s late evening news program, from 2003 until 2023. In 2024, he stepped down from the BBC amid a police investigation concerning child pornography offenses, for which he later pleaded guilty and was convicted.

Edwards received an annual salary ranging from £550,000 to £599,999 during his tenure as a presenter for the BBC. In response to identified gender pay disparities within the organization, he voluntarily opted for a salary reduction. Between April 2023 and April 2024, his salary was increased by £40,000; however, he resigned from the BBC “on medical advice” during this period. At that time, he had been under suspension for nine months due to allegations published in The Sun newspaper regarding payments made to a young individual for sexually explicit photographs.

The BBC has announced a resumption of its investigation into presenter Huw Edwards after police found no evidence of criminality regarding his behaviour.

Paedophile, Huw Edwards joins two other former BBC presenters who were jailed for five years for indecently assaulting under-age boys.

In 2017, husband and wife Tony and Julie Wadsworth were found guilty by a majority verdict of encouraging six boys to take part in sexual activity between 1992 and 1996.