Huw Edwards, who was until April the BBC‘s best-known and highest-paid news anchor, has arrived in court to face charges of making indecent images of children.
The Welsh broadcaster, who has been a fixture on British screens for decades, walked into London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court wearing dark sunglasses and a suit. A huge media throng had gathered in the hour prior to his arrival in preparation for what could prove to be one of the highest profile media trials of the year.
Edwards was charged with three counts of “making indecent images of children” in late June following a months-long Metropolitan 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.
He is accused of having six category A images, 12 category B images and 19 category C images on his WhatsApp. Category A is defined as “images involving penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal or sadism.”
Edwards’ appearance today is a first hearing. He is in court having not been seen in public for a year. He stopped appearing on the BBC when allegations surfaced in The Sun last summer and exited the corporation in April 2024 on “medical advice” after “40 years of service,” the corporation said, coming just prior to him taking home his biggest pay packet in five years.
He was arrested five months before he left the BBC and charged just two months later. While the legal proceedings are active, the BBC is declining comment on Edwards’ case and is not saying whether it had continued paying him or whether it had knowledge of his arrest.
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