HUW Edwards has arrived at court for sentencing after he admitted being sent a string of child sex images by a convicted paedo.
The former BBC presenter, 63, was given the images and video in a sick WhatsApp chat by Alex Williams.
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He was sent the images by paedo Alex WilliamsFacebook
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.
Edwards was pictured dragging a small suitcase as he arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today.
He remained silent when asked if he wanted to apologise for his vile crimes.
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 create any of the images himself.
The charge of making indecent images can mean opening an email attachment, downloading a picture or receiving an image via social media.
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.
EDWARDS UNMASKED
By Scarlet Howes | Sun Investigations Team
THE mum of a teen sent vile messages by Huw Edwards has hit out at the disgraced BBC host in an open letter.
She tells him he caused “immense pain and suffering” to her and her son in the pursuit of his “sick pleasure”.
Edwards, 62, is due to be sentenced today over indecent images of children as young as seven found on his mobile phone.
Seven of the 41 he admitted to receiving were in Category A — the most serious classification.
The mother of the young man who Edwards paid tens of thousands of pounds to in return for sexually explicit pictures says the former news anchor should be locked up.
She writes: “Edwards has exploited very young children for his own sick ends and in my mind should go to prison.
“It breaks my heart as a mother to know that the man who groomed and controlled my son also shared the worst kind of child abuse picture.
“No paedophile who enjoys pictures of young kids should be free on the street.”
Edwards is facing a possible jail sentence when he appears in court today and could spend the rest of his life on the sex offenders register.
The anguished mum of Huw Edwards’ young victim has told the shamed BBC star: “All we cared about was stopping you.”
She poured her heart out in an open letter after she exposed the shamed News at Ten presenter for sending her teenage son tens of thousands of pounds in return for sexually explicit pictures.
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