Huw Edwards has been asked to hand back the £200k in salary he earned after his arrest for making indecent images of children.
Huw Edwards has been asked to hand back the £200k in salary he earned after his arrest for making indecent images of children. The disgraced BBC newsreader was arrested in November, which senior executives at the corporation were aware of. He was paid £200,000 in the five months between his arrest and his departure in April.Married father of five Edwards, 62, admitted three counts of making indecent child images last week, after being charged in June.
The corporation has not said whether it will take legal means to claw back Edwards' salary if he does not return it voluntarily.The BBC previously said that they made a distinction between Edwards' arrest and charge, which came in June - two months after he left.They said that if Edwards had been charged while he was still an employee it would have sacked him, but at the point of the charge he no longer worked for them.
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