Today we look at the court hearing where former-BBC News presenter, Huw Edwards, pleaded guilty to making indecent images. He admitted to having 41 indecent images of children which had been sent to him by another man on WhatsApp. Adam is joined by Culture & Media Editor, Katie Razzall. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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Is a breaking episode of Newscast, which we're recording at quarter to one on Wednesday afternoon following the news that the former BBC newsreader Hugh Edwards this morning pled guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children.
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And earlier this morning, Hugh Edwards, the former BBC newsreader, was seen in public for the first time since allegations surrounding his private life emerged last summer.
He was arriving at Westminster Magistrate's court, he was wearing sunglasses, he was surrounded by police.
He was jostled by a huge crowd of reporters as he entered the building.
Just a few minutes later, he pled guilty to the three charges he was facing.
They were of making indecent images of children.
And we learned that he was accused of having 41 images on a device which had been sent to him by another man via WhatsApp, the messaging service.
Seven of those images were known as category A images, which are the most serious kinds in these cases.
And also, we should just say that that phrase, making indecent images, that law covers a few things.
It's not necessarily actually filming them or taking the photos yourself.
It can just be possessing them.
Hugh Edwards lawyer said in court that Hugh Edwards had not made these images himself, he had received them.
And in terms of the timeline, we got clarification that he'd been arrested last November, was charged last month, and he will receive his sentence on the 16 September.
Well, when news about Hugh Edwards first emerged last year, we followed the whole story with BBC media editor Katie Razzle, who's here.
Hi, Katie.
I suppose the first thing we should say is this is a separate case from what we were talking about last summer, where the police decided there were no criminal charges to answer with that claim that Hugh Edwards had paid a young person for pictures.
It is completely separate.
So the sun, everyone will remember, broke that story with a series of stories over days about Hugh Edwards and what they called sordid images relating to a young person.