EXCLUSIVE: Huw Edwards makes bombshell statement on child s3x offences in furious post
Huw Edwards has spoken out two years after his child sex offences scandal (Image: PA)
Huw Edwards has spoken out about his child sex offences two years after he was convicted of three charges of making indecent images of children. The court heard that the disgraced BBC News presenter received 41 illegal images, including seven category A pictures, via WhatsApp from a convicted sex offender. In September 2024, he received a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years and was placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years.
Now, the veteran broadcaster has spoken out for the first time since he pleaded guilty, on his new Substack blog. In his latest post, titled “On Hatred,” he shared his experience of receiving hate messages from trolls.
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He began: “For the record, I am not a child rapist. Child sex offences are serious crimes. Those crimes cover a broad spectrum of criminality. All child sex crimes are appalling, and some are far worse than others.
“In my case, a three-month forensic examination of my mobiles, computers and storage devices found not a single illegal image. A survey of my internet searches found nothing unlawful. My crime was to click on files sent to me by someone else.”
The broadcaster went on to label the legal terminology for his crime as “misleading”, insisting he was simply “accessing an image”. Mr Edwards went on: “It is perfectly normal to hate a crime which involves the abuse of children. I have written previously about the sense of abhorrence I feel about these crimes.
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“It is the failure to separate the crime from the perpetrator which fuels mindless hatred – a hatred which impedes society’s ability to understand why some people behave in ways that are destructive and shameful.”
The disgraced presenter pled guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children (Image: Julia Quenzler / SWNS)
The former newsreader went on to reveal that he will explain his “reasons for pleading guilty” in a future post once his conviction becomes spent on September 16. But he said: “The criminal justice system – whatever police or prosecutors say – tends not to make meaningful allowances for people whose crimes were committed when they were mentally impaired.”
Addressing the hate messages he receives online, he added that the overwhelming backlash is “an indicator of the quality of public discourse in today’s UK.” He pondered: “More significantly, it tells us about people’s capacity and willingness to pause, listen and try to work out if their reflex hatred is justified.”
