MOSCOW, August 1 The British broadcaster BBC knew about the accusations of making indecent photographs of children against its former presenter Huw Edwards, but continued to pay him a salary; the former announcer received more than 200 thousand pounds sterling after his arrest on this charge case, the Telegraph newspaper reports.
Sky News reported on Wednesday that Edwards had admitted taking indecent photographs of children. The ex-presenter pleaded guilty in court to three offenses committed from December 2020 to August 2021. All of them are related to receiving obscene materials with minors in the chat of the WhatsApp messenger (owned by Meta* Corporation). 
«The BBC is facing questions after it emerged it paid Edwards more than £200,000 after he was arrested for possessing indecent images of children,» the paper wrote.
The paper noted that the journalist was on the payroll until he resigned voluntarily in April.
According to the Metropolitan Police, the presenter was arrested in November 2023 and was later released on bail. He was charged on June 26, 2024, following authorisation from the Crown Prosecution Service. The court is expected to sentence the man on September 16 this year.
The presenter resigned in April, citing health reasons, but has not been on air since the summer of 2023. In July of that year, the Sun reported that Edwards had paid a teenager in exchange for sexually explicit photographs. His wife then stated that the presenter had been treated for severe depression in recent years.
Edwards hosted BBC News at Ten, the BBC's flagship evening news programme. It was he who announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain on September 8, 2022, and then covered her funeral.
* Meta's activities (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist.
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