Huw Edwards sent money to man who sent him indecent videos of children, disgraced BBC presenter's sentencing told - latest updates

Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards sent hundreds of pounds to a convicted paedophile after they sent him pornographic images, a court has heard.

The 63-year-old is due to be sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday after three charges of “making” indecent photographs after he was sent 41 illegal images by Alex Williams over WhatsApp.

The court heard Edwards told Williams “go on” when asked if he wanted “naughty pics and vids” of somebody described as “yng (sic)”. He wrote “yes xxx” when he was asked by Williams if he wanted sexual images of a person whose “age could be discerned as being between 14 and 16”.

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Philip Evans KC, defending, said Edwards did not make payments to Williams in order to receive indecent images of children, telling the court: “Mr Edwards did not make payments in order for images to be sent to him, and he certainly did not make payments in order that indecent images would be sent to him. For the latest Welsh news delivered to your inbox sign up to our newsletter

“Mr Edwards positively told Mr Williams not to send images of people who were under-age.” Opening the case against the veteran broadcaster, prosecutor Ian Hope said: “It is clear from the face of the WhatsApp chat recovered that a deal of the chat between Alex Williams and Mr Edwards was sexual in nature.

“It is also clear that Mr Edwards was paying not insignificant sums of money – low hundreds of pounds on an occasional basis – to Alex Williams which Mr Williams directly asked for on several occasions, as gifts or presents, apparently off the back of sending