Huw Edwards has avoided jail despite admitting paying a paedophile as much as £1,500 for child abuse images.
Huw Edwards has avoided jail despite admitting paying a paedophile as much as £1,500 for child abuse images. Edwards, 63, was given six months suspended for two years, after admitting three charges of "making" indecent photographs after being sent the images by convicted paedophile Alex Williams over WhatsApp.Edwards will also have to attend 25 sessions of a sex offender programme and will be required to sign the sex offenders' register for seven years.
"He has lost that good character in a very public way. That is, we respectfully submit, a matter of some significance and we know that the court will not underestimate the effect that that will have had on him. "He has not worked since leaving employment with the BBC."The BBC said after the sentencing that Edwards had "betrayed not just the BBC, but audiences who put their trust in him", adding that they were "appalled" by his crimes.
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