Former BBC News at Ten anchor Huw Edwards, who was paid £475k of TV licence fee payer's cash despite being suspended most of last year, has been charged with making indecent images of children.
Edwards, 62, left the BBC under a cloud last year when rumours emerged that he'd paid a vulnerable adult male £35,000 for intimate photographs.
Keeping with that theme, it has now emerged that the former BBC man was charged on 26th June with three offences of making indecent images of children. He has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (31st July).
An offence of making indecent images of children is committed when a person downloads images from the web. According to reports, the allegations in this case involve images shared via WhatsApp. They are said to have taken place between December 2020 and April 2022.
Edwards is accused of making 6 category A images (involving penetrative sexual activity); 12 category B images (involving non-penetrative sexual activity); and 19 category C images (involving sexualised poses).
It now transpires that the 62-year-old was first arrested in relation to these allegations in November 2023, when he was still firmly on the BBC payroll.
As the legal wheels are in motion I shall not say anything else.
I may be able to write further after Edwards' hearing on Wednesday.
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Further anti-BBC reading:
- Is The True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC?, by David Sedgwick (aff. link)
- The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, by Tom Mills (aff. link)
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