The 62-year-old arrived at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of three counts of making indecent images of children.
Huw Edwards is facing 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children, which included two sexual videos of a boy under nine.
He remained emotionless as he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, between December 2020 and August 2022. Disgraced former BBC News reader Huw Edwards is pictured leaving Westminster Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children Surrounded by eight police officers, Edwards arrived at Westminster Magistrates' Court wearing black sunglasses, a blue tie, white shirt and navy-blue suit.
The court heard that Edwards had been involved in online chat with an adult man on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021, who sent him 377 sexual images, of which 44 were indecent images of children.Mr Hope told the court there was 'no suggestion' Edwards had 'anything to with making the images or indeed doing anything beyond the opening of the images.'
'Approximately 277 images were sent to Mr Edwards, 41 of which comprised indecent images of children - so just over 10 per cent of the total number of images sent. 'He tells the male not to send him illegal images and no more are sent to him although the chat continues.Edwards told him not to send any illegal images, the court was told.Speaking in Edwards' defence, his barrister Philip Evans KC 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.
June 6, 2023 - After getting no reply to the email, the Corporate Investigations Team tries to call the complainant but the call does not connect.July 6, 2023 - The Sun informs BBC Press Office about allegations against the star presenter. In 2001 BBC presenter and music impresario Jonathan King was convicted of sexual offences committed between 1983 and 1987 against five boys aged 14 and 15 and was jailed for seven years.
In 2016, Denning was given another 13 years after pleaded guilty to 21 sex offences against 11 boys between 1969 and 1986, the youngest of whom was aged eight. The following year legendary children's presenter and entertainer Rolf Harris was jailed five years and nine months after he was convicted of 12 charges of indecent assault against four girls - including one aged seven.
Edwards has since left the family home and has reportedly split with his TV producer wife, Vicky Flind The last picture of the former BBC News star captures him crossing the threshold into the court building this morning Claire Brinton of the CPS said: 'Accessing indecent images of underage people perpetuates the sexual exploitation of children, which has deep, long-lasting trauma on these victims.
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