BBC shares statement as Huw Edwards pleads guilty to 'abhorrent' child sex offences

The BBC is shocked to hear the details which have emerged in court today.

There can be no place for such abhorrent behaviour and our thoughts are with all those affected.

If at any point during the period Mr Edwards was employed by the BBC he had been charged, the BBC had determined it would act immediately to dismiss him.

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