Huw Edwards latest: BBC director-general Tim Davie summoned for talks with Culture Secretary over disgraced presenter who faces prison over child abuse images

Tim Davie will meet Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy today with major questions facing the BBC over its handling of the Huw Edwards scandal.

Katie Razzall, the BBC's culture and media editor, writes:

So here are some questions we expect Mr Davie will face:

Ms Razzall suggests this question may be the 'most difficult to explain' as it emerged Edwards received his vast salary for five months following his arrest in November last year. Edwards resigned in April

Following Edwards' conviction, the BBC had said it knew the presenter had been arrested on suspicion of serious offences in November. His former colleagues say they didn't know about the arrest.

M Razzall reports, 'Why didn’t the BBC sack Edwards, in light of his arrest, instead of giving him the space to leave, apparently on his own terms, albeit with no pay off?

Another question Mr Davie may face is why Edwards' arrest wasn't made public at the time.

Ms Razzall writes: 'Did the corporation also have a duty to its audiences to inform the public about the arrest, rather than sit on the information?'

It is pointed out people who are arrested do have a right to privacy although in certain cases this can be outweighed by whether it is in the public interest.

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has branded his ex-BBC colleague Huw Edwards 'disgusting' and urged people to consider the 'callously exploited and psychologically destroyed' child victims.

Edwards, 62, yesterday pleaded guilty to receiving 41 indecent images of children, which included two sexual videos of a boy under nine.

His former colleague Campbell took to social media to slam Edwards and the other 'disgusting men' involved in the swapping and trading of child pornography.

Campbell, 63, has previously revealed how he and his fellow classmates at a top private school were sexually abused by teachers when they were just children in the 1970s.

Huw Edwards has made a 'mockery' of the BBC and was aided by a small band of his bosses who kept his arrest secret for months, betrayed staffers said today.

The corporation faces yet more damaging questions after another of its biggest stars was revealed to be a sex offender after Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris and others.

'It's unforgivable and makes a mockery of the organisation. There will be lots of people who are very angry with Tim Davie', one BBC employee said today.

And BBC News Culture and Media Editor Katie Razzall said:

by Iwan Stone

The BBC reported on Huw Edwards' guilty plea from his old seat last night, as they told viewers 'the man who read the news headlines is now in them'.

Journalists from the broadcaster were left to address awkward questions over their most trusted face, as the company admitted it knew the former star had been arrested on 'suspicion of serious offences' last November, but kept paying his £479,000-a-year salary until he resigned in April.

Alongside clips on him reporting for the BBC, special correspondent Lucy Manning said: 'The man who read the news headlines is now in them. In the middle of the jostling cameras and reporters who he would have normally worked alongside.'

Speaking in front of her former colleague as he entered a car outside court, she continued: 'In the last year, Huw Edwards has gone from the top of the BBC to suspension to resignation, and now pleading guilty to these serious offences.

'A downfall for a man who was at the pinnacle of his career.'

Williams fled his family home in Wales shortly before his connection to the famous news reader emerged yesterday. He has now gone into hiding.

He sent Edwards 377 images, 41 of which were indecent and formed the charges to which the veteran broadcaster pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Two images involved a child believed to be as young as seven, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Williams himself was given a 12-month jail term suspended for two years in March after pleading guilty to seven offences relating to possessing and distributing indecent images.

Last night his parents confirmed that Williams is no longer living with them - and denied having any knowledge that he was a sex offender.

Williams' mother claimed to be unaware that her son was convicted of child pornography offences at Merthyr Crown Court earlier this year.

She and Williams' father said they had not seen Williams for three or four months - although neighbours said they spotted him in the street within the last few weeks.

by Tom Cotterill, Nick Pisa and Tom Bedford

The paedophile who sent disgraced news reader Huw Edwards child porn images can today be pictured for the first time.

Alex Williams, 25, shared 41 indecent images with Edwards, 62, in an abhorrent WhatsApp chat.

Among the sickening trove of abusive pictures shared by the sex offender included two showing a child as young as seven.

Edwards was snared by chance by police in Wales who were investigating Williams and stumbled on his messages sent to the famed newsreader.

by Katherine Lawton

A BBC insider has claimed bosses at the corporation may have 'turned a blind eye' to the star's behaviour within the newsroom in order to 'protect' him.

It comes as the BBC admitted it knew Edwards had been arrested on 'suspicion of serious offences' last November, but kept paying his £479,000-a-year salary until he resigned in April.

A BBC insider said last night: 'It was known for a few years he was messaging an assortment of lads in the newsroom for drinks etc, yet the feeling is senior editors might have turned a blind eye. If this was the case, it points to the usual ''protect the star'' stuff.'

The News at Ten reader, whose glittering four-decade career is now in tatters, is said to have kept his arrest 'secret' from his friends, according to a former colleague.

Before pleading guilty to indecent images on Wednesday, Edwards had faced an earlier scandal after being accused of paying a young person for sexually explicit images last year.

Let's look back at how his downfall unfolded:

by Frankie Elliott

BBC chief Tim Davie will today be hauled in for urgent talks with ministers in the wake of disgraced presenter Huw Edwards admitting to accessing indecent photographs of children.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is understood to have summoned the Director General amidst concerns the Corporation continued to pay the presenter's £470,000-a-year salary after becoming aware of his arrest last November.

The broadcaster said it continued employing the disgraced presenter until he quit in April, meaning he was paid around £200,000 whilst under arrest on 'suspicion of serious offences'.

The Welsh news reader, 62, pleaded guilty to 'making' indecent photographs, with seven of the 41 being of the most serious type, at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

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We will be providing the latest updates and reaction after the disgraced BBC presenter admitted making indecent images at Westminster Magistrates Court.

Today, the BBC's director-general Tim Davie will speak to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy after he was summoned for talks in wake of the 62-year-old's conviction.

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