Former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children.
The 62-year-old, who arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court wearing a dark blue suit, blue tie, and dark sunglasses, admitted committing three offences between December 2020 and August 2021.
He had 41 photographs – seven category A images, 12 category B pictures, and 22 category C – on the messaging app WhatsApp. The category A images – the most serious kind – were mostly of children aged 13 to 15, the court heard.
But there were two moving images of a young child, possibly aged between seven and nine years old, according to prosecutors. Edwards will be sentenced on 16th September.