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Jul 2024
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Huw Edwards guilty: What questions now f...

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Former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to charges of making indecent images of children.   
  
The court heard Edwards had been involved in an online chat with an adult man on WhatsApp between December 2020 and April 2022, while he was still presenting on the BBC.   
  
On the Sky News Daily, host Liz Bates is joined by Sky correspondent Henry Vaughn who was at the court in Westminster as Edwards pleaded guilty, and asks Jake Kanter, international investigations editor at Deadline, what his plea could mean for the national broadcaster.   

  
Producers: Emma Woodhouse & Tom Pooley  
Editor: Philly Beaumont    
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku   
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