Huw Edwards given suspended sentence for accessing indecent images of children

Former BBC newsreader admitted offences involving photographs of children as young as seven

The former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence, completing an extraordinary fall from grace, after admitting accessing indecent photographs of children as young as seven.

Edwards, 63, who spent four decades at the BBC, looked pale and tired in the dock at Westminster magistrates court as the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, handed down the sentence.