Huw Edwards, one of the BBC’s highest-profile anchors and who was suspended last year over allegations of paying for explicit images, resigned from the broadcaster on Monday.
Mr. Edwards, 62, had led the BBC’s coverage of major national events, including the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
He started as a trainee in 1984, and by the end of his career he was the regular anchor of “BBC News at Ten.”He was suspended by the BBC in July after The Sun tabloid newspaper reported that an unnamed anchor from the broadcaster had paid a teenager $45,000 for sexually explicit images, starting when the person was 17.
Mr. Edwards’s wife later publicly identified her husband as the anchor in the report.
The age of consent in Britain is 16, but sharing or possessing indecent images of someone under 18 is a crime.
Persons:
Huw Edwards, Edwards, Queen Elizabeth II, Edwards’s
Organizations:
BBC, Sun
Locations:
Britain