Huw Edwards: Ex-BBC presenter must lose honours now – abuse victim

The children’s charity NSPCC said: “Online child sexual abuse offences can have a devastating impact on victims and we should be in no doubt about the seriousness of Edwards’s crimes.

“It can be extremely traumatic for young people to know sexual images of themselves have been shared online. Childline and the UWF’s (Internet Watch Foundation) Report Remove tool, external can help young people who have suffered in this way to get the images removed.

“We also need to see online platforms do much more to identify and disrupt child abuse in private messaging services in order to safeguard young people.”

Cardiff University said after the guilty plea it “is actively reviewing procedures in relation to the honorary fellowship award and his position as an honorary professor”.

Bangor University also said it was reviewing an honorary fellowship it had granted him.

The Learned Society of Wales, the country’s national scholarly academy, also said it was reviewing Edwards’s fellowship, to which he was elected in May 2023, in the wake of his guilty plea.

The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Swansea University have said they were not able to comment.

Edwards is a former vice-president of the church building society National Churches Trust, and has appeared on Songs Of Praise.

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