Huw Edwards still hasn't returned £200,000 salary he was paid after being arrested over child abuse images, BBC boss Tim Davie reveals
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Huw Edwards still hasn't returned £200,000 salary he was paid after being arrested over child abuse images, BBC boss Tim Davie reveals

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Huw Edwards still hasn't repaid any of the £200,000 he was paid by the BBC after being arrested over child abuse images, Tim Davie has revealed. Huw Edwards, 62, pleaded guilty to having indecent images of children on July 31 at Westminster Magistrates' Court, with seven of the 41 images being of the most serious type Tim Davie told the House of Lords' Communications and Digital Committee on Tuesday that the money, which spanned from Edwards' arrest in November until he resigned from the BBC in April, had not yet been returned Edwards announced his resignation from the BBC in April, citing medical advice, having already been suspended over separate allegations the previous July. Edwards was the BBC's highest-paid news presenter before leaving the corporation Huw Edwards shakes hands with Queen Elizabeth II during a royal visit to BBC Studios in London in June 2013 When asked about the Huw Edwards scandal, Mr Shah told the committee: 'There's nothing more important than public trust in the BBC, and we are custodians of that trust and what Huw Edwards did damaged the reputation and the trust for BBC so we take that very seriously indeed. Mr Shah previously told BBC staff it was 'a shock to discover that Huw Edwards was living a double life'.

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