The young man whose relationship with Huw Edwards set in motion the BBC star's downfall has told how his mum caught him trying to meet up with the BBC star. The man, now 21, says his mum took control of his phone and was messaging Edwards pretending to be her son.
He told the Mirror that the one time they did organise to meet up, his mum found out about the rendezvous at Cardiff train station. The man said: "My mum got on my phone and was messaging Huw with him thinking it was me. My step-dad then turned up and recorded Huw at the station."
The revelation was made during an interview with the young person at the centre of the scandal that erupted last summer when it emerged the man's mum and stepdad had claimed that Edwards paid £35,000 in return for 'sordid' pictures of him. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, says he feels like Edwards, 62, 'groomed' him.
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The arrangement was blown wide open when his mum found messages after going through his phone. The young man says Edwards regularly pestered him about them meeting up. He said: "I turned him down loads of times." His mum went to the BBC who didn't act on her complaint - and later went to the Sun newspaper saying how her son was being taken advantage of.
Edwards spent up to £35,000 in return for photos, with the young person's PayPal account showing dozens of transactions over two years. One message accompanying a £500 PayPal deposit stated: "Be Loyal." The man said: "In my head I wasn't selling pictures of myself I was just getting the money he said he would give me to help me. It turned out it was not just to help me, it was for the longer game, it was sexual, but it was never asked for
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