LONDON: Former BBC TV news presenter Huw Edwards, a household name in Britain, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three counts of making indecent pictures of children.

Edwards, 62, who was the BBC’s highest-paid journalist and top news anchor until he quit in April, arrived at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court wearing sunglasses through a throng of photographers and camera crews.

After confirming his identity, he was asked if he wished to indicate a plea to the three charges, which relate to three different categories of indecent images. Edwards said: “Guilty”.

Judge Paul Goldspring said Edwards would be sentenced on Sept 16.

During the 25-minute hearing, prosecutor Ian Hope said the 41 still or moving images had been sent to Edwards by an adult male on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021.

Hope added that seven of the 41 images were of the most serious kind and that two of those seven images were pornographic videos of a child possibly aged seven and nine years old.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2024