Shamed Huw Edwards wrote “yes xxx” when he was asked by a convicted paedophile if he wanted to receive sexual images of a person whose “age could be discerned as being between 14 and 16”. The disgraced presenter is in court today to be sentenced after pleading guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children. Evidence has been heard including a message exchange with Alex Williams, the man who shared indecent images with the former BBC star.
Prosecutor Ian Hope said: “From that chat in December 2020, Alex Williams said that he had ‘a file of vids and pics for you of someone special’. Mr Edwards immediately queried who the subject was and was then sent three images of seemingly the same person, from two of which images the subject’s age could be discerned as being between 14 and 16. “These two were category C indecent images of children in which the child was exposing his penis.
Alex Williams stated that he had ‘12 videos and 42 pics I’ve sent you a video of him before’. Shortly after Alex Williams asked: ‘want me to send you the full file?’ Mr Edwards responded ‘Yes xxx..
.’ "Immediately following which Williams sent to Edwards around 30 attachments, about half of which were category C indecent images of children.” Williams, a 25-year-old fellow Welshman, was given a 12-month suspended jail term earlier this year after pleading guilty to seven offences related to possessing and distributing indecent images.
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