Huw Edwards admitted three prices of creating indecent photos of youngsters throughout his first look at a British legal court docket.
Edwards appeared at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on Wednesday morning and admitted the fees earlier than Chief Decide Paul Goldspring and a press field full of reporters.
The previous BBC information anchor, as soon as one of many BBC’s highest paid figures, confirmed no emotion as he was led by means of courtroom one and into the glass-paneled dock, carrying a darkish go well with, white shirt and blue tie. When he entered the court docket carrying sun shades, he took them off earlier than coming into the courtroom.
Edwards offered solely his title, date of beginning and a part of his UK tackle and entered a plea to every cost. His attorneys requested Edwards to not learn out his full speech, opposite to British court docket custom, due to the “risky” scenario outdoors the court docket, which included protests.
He nodded as the fees had been learn.
His lawyer defined how the photographs had been despatched to him through Snapchat and mechanically saved to his cellphone, regardless of him asking the Snapchat sender, an grownup male, to cease sending the photographs.
The utmost sentence is 10 years in jail.
The information anchor, who had labored for the BBC for 40 years, resigned in April, citing medical recommendation. By then he had been on depart for 10 months.
