HUW Edwards is facing jail today after he admitted being sent sexual photos of children – including videos of a boy as young as seven.
The former BBC presenter, 62, was given the images on WhatsApp by convicted paedo Alex Williams.
Edwards could face a maximum of ten years in prison when he is sentenced today.
He previously pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.
The veteran newsreader was sent 41 images – including two videos of a boy as young as seven – by Williams in a sick WhatsApp chat.
Seven of the images fall under Category A – the most serious classification.
This included two moving images of a young child, possibly aged between seven and nine years old.
He also had photos of other children aged between 13 and 15 stored on his phone.
A further 12 images were classed as Category B and 19 as Category C.
Edwards had engaged in an online chat with 25-year-old Williams between December 2020 and August 2021.
During this time, the paedo sent Edwards 377 sexual images, of which 41 were indecent images of children.
Williams pleaded guilty in March to seven offences relating to possessing and distributing indecent images.
He was handed a 12-month jail term suspended for two years.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard in July that Edwards did not created any of the images himself.
Edwards quit the BBC in April after 40 years reporting on some of the world’s biggest stories.
This included leading coverage of the Queen‘s funeral and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s wedding.
He was one of the BBC’s highest-profile and highest-paid presenters with a pay bracket between £475,000 and £479,999 for the year 2023/24.
The BBC confirmed it knew in November their star newsreader had been arrested but kept paying him for another five months.
The Sun revealed previously how the dad-of-five has now split from his TV producer wife.
Edwards has moved out of the family home in Dulwich, South London, he shared with Vicky.
The couple, who got engaged in 1993, have three sons and two daughters.
