He was not sacked, even though some senior BBC staff knew he had been held.

Fury as disgraced Huw Edwards ignores BBC pleas to return £200k wages he was paid after his arrest

Edwards was on £475,000 a year when he was arrested in November 2023 over child abuse images

• Scarlet Howes, Chief Sunday Reporter

• Published: 22:58, 3 May 2025

DISGRACED former newsreader Huw Edwards has ignored BBC pleas to return the £200,000 he was paid after his arrest on paedophile charges.

The corporation’s chairman Samir Shah said yesterday that the former News at Ten anchor had repeatedly been asked to “just give it back”.