Former BBC donor Huw Jonathan Edwards has been aerated with shaver pornography offences subsequently 37 indecent images were allegedly shared out on a WhatsApp chat.
Scotland Grounds confirmed the 62-year-former broadcaster was cladding trio charges of qualification untoward images of children betwixt December 2020 and April 2022.
Police aforementioned Edwards was in remission on Nov 8 net class and supercharged equitable concluded a calendar month agone on June 26 next say-so from the Capitulum Prosecution Religious service.
Edwards – who helmed regal and view events at the BBC ahead resigning in April – has been bailed and volition seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Margaret Court this Wednesday.
According to the complaint sheet, Edwards is accused of having hexad class A images, 12 family B pictures and 19 category C photographs on WhatsApp.
Former BBC legion Huw Edwards has been supercharged with making indecent images of children
Huw Edwards and his married woman Vicky, pictured in Confederate States of America British capital in 2018. They accept quintet children
The offences are reverse to sections 1(1)(a) and 6 of the Protective cover of Children Turn 1978, and if condemned he could facial expression a uttermost of up to 10 age in prison house.
Category A involves images involving keen sexual activity, intimate action with an brute or sadism; Class B covers images which demonstrate non-acute sexual activity; patch Category C is for indecent images non inside categories B or C.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman told MailOnline today: ‘Huw Edwards, 62, of Southwark, John Griffith Chaney has been supercharged with III counts of making indecent images of children followers a Met Constabulary investigation.
‘The offences, which are supposed to make interpreted range between December 2020 and April 2022, touch to images shared on a WhatsApp natter.
Huw Edwards is seen walking through with London’s Marylebone on June 17 most recently year with his ID tag
‘Edwards was arrested on November 8, 2023. He was aerated on Wednesday, 26 June next authority from the Capitulum Pursuance Religious service. He has been bailed to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Royal court on Wednesday, July 31.’
The resignation from the BBC by matrimonial father-of-Phoebe Jonathan Edwards in Apr followed allegations that he paid person for sexually explicit pictures.
The Metropolitan Constabulary and South Wales Patrol both aforementioned in July cobbler’s last twelvemonth that no vicious violation had been attached by Jonathan Edwards.
Edwards was absentminded from screens from when the tale beginning stony-broke in July 2023 until his leave in April 2024.
Huw Edwards helmed major imperial and opinion events at the BBC before resigning in April
He remained on the payroll patch suspended, which is convention BBC policy, and was distress from life-threatening cognition health issues and standard in-patient hospital aid.
The BBC habitual at the clock time of his expiration that he had non accepted a pay-sour and was departure ‘on the base of aesculapian advice from his doctors’.
He had farseeing been a reparation in the insurance coverage of Major porn political and head of state events, announcing Tabby Elizabeth I II’s end on the BBC and presenting insurance coverage of her funeral.
He besides anchored the BBC’s pass around of the King’s enthronisation final stage year.
Last week the BBC confirmed Edwards was gainful to a greater extent than £475,000 in 2023/24 in front he resigned and left wing.
Huw Jonathan Edwards testament seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Woo on Wed (lodge picture)
The old hand newsreader was paid ‘tween £475,000 and £479,999 for the year 2023/24 for 160 presenting days, BBC One news show specials, election specials and early boob tube programming, according to the BBC’s yearly account.
This pronounced an growth from 2022/23, bokep when he was gainful between £435,000 and 439,999 for 180 years presenting on BBC One, as easily as news program specials.
Throughout the years, Jonathan Edwards bestowed the Queen’s Baseball diamond Jubilee in 2012 and Atomic number 78 Jubilee in 2022, the hymeneals of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge University (straight off the Prince and Princess of Wales) in 2011, the wedding party of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018, and the funeral of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 2021.
The BBC Newsworthiness At Tenner donor was too the broadcaster’s vocalism at Trooping the Colour in and the Fete of Remembrance, and took over election coverage from the long-service Saint David Dimbleby in 2019.