Trusted former BBC news anchor Huw Edwards has been handed a six-month sentence suspended for two years after pleading guilty.
File picture: BBC journalist Huw Edwards speaks in front of a camera in Downing Street in central London on September 5, 2022. Picture: AFP.
Edwards guided Britons through some of their country’s most seismic events over the past two decades, including the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022. Sentencing Edwards, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said that if jailed he would have been at risk of “considerable harm” from others, and of suicide, adding that he had also shown remorse.
Defence lawyer Philip Evans told the court Edwards accepted the “repugnant nature of the images” and was “profoundly sorry” for having “betrayed so many people”.He was first arrested in November last year and charged in June, but the case was only revealed publicly in late July, just days before his court appearance.
But the father-of-five’s professional life began to unravel in July 2023 when he was suspended by the BBC following allegations in a tabloid newspaper that he paid a young man for explicit images. BBC director-general Tim Davie said the broadcaster was “very shocked” at the details that came to light during Edwards’ prosecution.
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