In July 2023, a national newspaper reported that “a top BBC star” had paid a teenager for sexual images.
Days later, Edwards’ wife named him as the presenter at the centre of the scandal.
He resigned from the BBC on health grounds, before being charged in June 2024 following a Metropolitan Police investigation.
The former newsreader, who was raised near Llanelli, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to three charges of making indecent images of children.
They included seven category A images, the most serious classification, and were sent to Edwards on WhatsApp by a 25-year-old convicted sex offender called Alex Williams.
Edwards was ordered to attend a sex offender treatment programme as part of his sentence.