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The BBC has told former presenter Huw Edwards to hand back the more than £200,000 ($254,767) he received in salary payments following his arrest last November on suspicion of possessing “indecent images of children” — crimes he pleaded guilty to last week.
“Mr. Edwards pleaded guilty to an appalling crime,” the publicly funded broadcaster said in a statement Friday. “Had he been upfront when asked by the BBC about his arrest, we would never have continued to pay him public money. He has clearly undermined trust in the BBC and brought us into disrepute.”
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