Huw Edwards Urged By UK Minister To Hand Back His BBC Pay After Child Porn Admission
deadline.comHuw Edwards is facing growing pressure to return his salary to the BBC after pleading guilty this week to accessing indecent images of children.
Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, said the former newsreader should hand back around £200,000 ($255,000) of his pay to the BBC following his dramatic fall from grace.
Edwards was arrested in November 2023 but remained on the BBC payroll until his resignation in April 2024. He was suspended during this period. “I think he ought to return his salary,” Nandy told Sky News. “I think having been arrested on such serious charges all the way back in November, to continue to receive that salary all the way through until he resigned is wrong and it’s not a good use of taxpayers’ money.
I think most people in the country will agree with that but whether he does that or not is up to him.” ‘I am very concerned’ says culture secretary @lisanandy She spoke about former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards ‘committing such serious crimes and taxpayers money being used to fund his salary'https://t.co/UyHKbtVOaD
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