Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to having 41 indecent images of children on the messaging app WhatsApp, according to PA Media.
Edwards appeared before London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, with PA reporting that the alleged offenses were committed between December 2020 and August 2021. The court heard that Edwards engaged in online chat with an adult man on WhatsApp who sent him 377 sexual images, 41 of which were indecent images of children. All charges were in relation to images of children under the age of 18. The veteran journalist arrived at court wearing a dark suit, blue tie and sunglasses.
Speaking in Edwards’ defense, his barrister Philip Evans said, “there’s no suggestion in this case that Mr Edwards has… in the traditional sense of the word, created any image of any sort.” “Mr. Edwards did not keep any images, did not send any to anyone else and did not and has not sought similar images from anywhere else,” Evans said. On Monday, London’s Metropolitan Police said it had charged Edwards last month. He was arrested in November last year, police revealed.
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