The court heard how Huw Edwards paid up to €1,779 to a paedophile who sent him 41 illegal images between December 2020 and August 2021
Huw Edwards has been given a six-month suspended sentence for accessing indecent images of children as young as seven.of"making" indecent images of children.
Prosecutor Ian Hope told the court Edwards had been assessed as posing a"medium risk of causing serious harm to children".The disgraced Welsh broadcaster was sent the illegal images by convicted paedophile Alex Williams over WhatsApp. The final indecent image was sent in August 2021, a film featuring a young boy, with Williams telling Edwards the child was"quite young looking" and that he had more images which were illegal.
The BBC is attempting to recover an estimated £200,000 in pay from Edwards, who continued to be paid a salary for around five months after the corporation discovered he had been arrested in November 2023.
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