Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been charged with making indecent images of children, the Metropolitan Police has said. The veteran journalist, 62, who quit the Beeb after 40 years in April, faces three charges over alleged activity between December 2020 and April 2022. The offences are claimed to be linked to images shared on WhatsApp, police said.

Edwards will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday morning. According to the charge sheet, Edwards is accused of having six category A images, 12 category B pictures and 19 category C photographs on WhatsApp. If found guilty, he could receive a maximum penalty of six months in prison and an unlimited fine. The star was arrested last November by London’s Met Police - and charged with the offences on Wednesday, 26 June.

It comes less than a week after it was revealed that Edwards received a £40,000 pay rise from the BBC in the last year, despite being suspended for most of that time. The BBC’s director general Tim Davie said the pay rise was due to the BBC trying to act “proportionally”. “I think that’s what we did and it ended up in the conclusion, we all know, but I think we wouldn’t have wasted money if we weren’t doing the right thing,” he said.



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