[ad_1]
\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe BBC<\/a> has admitted it knew Huw Edwards<\/a> had been arrested over making indecent photographs of kids 5 months earlier than he left the company on \u201cmedical advice\u201d in April 2024.<\/p>\n \n\tDelivering its first assertion on the matter days after Edwards was charged, and approaching the day he pled responsible at Westminster Magistrates Court, the BBC mentioned it was \u201cmade aware in confidence that he had been arrested on suspicion of serious offences and released on bail whilst the police continued their investigation.\u201d This was in November.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAt the time, no charges had been brought against Mr Edwards and the BBC had also been made aware of significant risk to his health,\u201d mentioned the assertion. <\/p>\n \n\tThe BBC mentioned it might have \u201cacted immediately to dismiss him\u201d had he been charged at any level between when he was arrested in November and when he left in April 2024.<\/p>\n \n\tThe BBC was responding just a few hours after Edwards pled responsible to 3 counts of creating indecent photographs of kids.<\/p>\n \n\tHe will return to Westminster Magistrates Court on September 16, the place he’ll face sentencing and will go to jail. His responsible pleas at the moment took many within the court docket without warning, having assumed that he would solely communicate to verify his title and handle.<\/p>\n \n\tHis fall from grace has been spectacular. He was one of many faces of BBC News for many years, helmed election protection and introduced the demise of Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n