Disgraced former BBC presenter Huw Edwards paid a paedophile over £1,000 for child abuse images that he described as 'amazing', a court has heard ahead of his sentencing.
Disgraced former BBC presenter Huw Edwards paid a paedophile over £1,000 for child abuse images that he described as "amazing", a court has heard ahead of his sentencing. Edwards is due to be sentenced at Wesminster Magistrates' Court for accessing indecent images of children as young as seven.The court heard that Edwards was approached by paedophile Alex Williams in 2018, and began exchanging messages online, as well as having one phone call.
The final indecent image was sent in August 2021, a category A film featuring a young boy, with the convicted paedophile telling the newsreader the child was "quite young looking" and that he had more images which were illegal.Overall the charges cover a period between December 2020 and August 2021.The BBC has admitted it was informed that the former TV presenter had been arrested in November but continued to employ him for around five months until he left on medical advice.
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