The Culture Secretary has said that disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards should repay the hundreds of thousands of pounds he was paid after his arrest for making indecent child photos.
Edwards, one of the BBC's top earners, was paid £200,000 after his arrest last November as part of his annual salary of around £475,000.The 62-year-old married father of five pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photos of children on Wednesday.Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy met BBC boss Tim Davie on Thursday to discuss the Edwards case, after it emerged that the BBC knew about his arrest in November - five months before he quit in April.
The director-general said: "We knew it was serious, we knew no specifics, apart from the category of the potential offences."Asked about whether Edwards would still receive his pension, Mr Davie said it was "very difficult to claw back, nigh on impossible", adding: "These are unfortunately the specifics of how it works."When it comes to pay, again, legally challenging, but we’ll look at all options.
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