Disgraced BBC newsreader Huw Edwards is banned from unsupervised contact with children and talking to youngsters online as he awaits sentencing. The 62-year-old was granted conditional bail after he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children between December 2020 and August 2021 last month. Edwards, who was the BBC's highest-paid newsreader before he resigned in April, was warned "all options", including an immediate jail term, would be considered when he is sentenced on 16 September.
According to court records seen by Sky News, Edwards 's bail conditions also ban him from contacting Alex Williams, a 25-year-old paedophile , from Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, who sparked the investigation into Edwards. The seizure of his phone revealed the had pair exchanged messages over WhatsApp and that Williams had sent Edwards 377 sexual images, including 41 indecent images of children. Westminster Magistrates' Court previously heard seven of the images were of the most serious kind - including two videos of a child believed to have been aged between seven and nine.
Williams was convicted of seven offences relating to indecent images and prohibited images of children and was sentenced to a 12-month suspended prison sentence at Merthyr Crown Court on 15 March. Edwards, who was one of the BBC's most recognisable faces as he fronted major events including announcing the death of the Queen to the nation in 2022, was arrested in November last year. Read more from Sky .