The adult man sent him 377 sexual images. 41 of those images were indecent images of children.
A court heard Huw Edwards' response to an adult accomplice who told him a young boy in an image was "quite good-looking".
Out of the 41 images, 36 of the pictures of kids were sent over two months. Westminster Magistrates' Court was told Edwards' offending had a starting point of 12 months in prison. However, his barrister, Philip Evans KC, said there were mitigating factors and the sentence should be suspended. Top news stories today A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said at the time: "Huw Edwards, 62, of Southwark, London has been charged with three counts of making indecent images of children following a Met Police investigation. The offences, which are alleged to have taken place between December 2020 and April 2022, relate to images shared on a WhatsApp chat
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