Huw Edwards received BBC benefits after suspension for inappropriate behaviour

The disgraced prima was fixed a suspended jailhouse word this twelvemonth for making indecent images of children (Image: Getty)

The BBC has admitted to partially paying for immoderate of Huw Edwards aesculapian attraction aft helium was suspended by the corporation.

Last summertime Edwards was identified by his woman arsenic the BBC prima astatine the centre of misconduct allegations for paying a young idiosyncratic for explicit pictures.

She claimed that the newsreader, who led the organisation’s sum of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, had been “suffering from superior mental-health issues” starring to her taking the determination to uncover his identity.

The erstwhile News At Ten presenter went connected to admit possessing indecent images of children and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, suspended for 2 years, astatine Westminster magistrates’ tribunal successful September.

During his suspension, Edwards is believed to person suffered “another superior episode” which required him to acquisition “in-patient infirmary care”.

Edwards was the look of BBC quality but his estimation is "in tatters" pursuing condemnation (Image: Getty)

But accusation released nether the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) pursuing a petition by the Mail connected Sunday, shows that the publically funded organisation covered astatine slightest portion of the outgo for the disgraced star.

The corp said: “We tin corroborate that the BBC did wage for archetypal attraction for Huw Edwards straight aft his suspension from the BBC successful July 2023.

“This was based connected an appraisal of hazard and work of attraction considerations. Further, we tin corroborate that this attraction took spot successful England.”

The erstwhile BBC anchor paid Alex Williams, a paedophile, up to £1,500 for images of kid enactment abuse, contempt being told that those successful the photographs looked young,

The disgraced star's suspended condemnation caused fury for its leniency (Image: Getty)

He was yet convicted of making 41 indecent images of children, 7 of which were class A, the astir superior kind.

In sentencing, Paul Goldspring, the main magistrate, told that Edwards his “long-earned reputation” was “in tatters” arsenic helium handed him a six-month suspended jailhouse word and ordered him to undertake a enactment offender attraction programme, acquisition a rehabilitation enactment request order, and motion the enactment offenders’ registry for 7 years.

The BBC refused to uncover however overmuch was spent connected the attraction oregon however agelong the attraction went connected for.

It is not believed that immoderate outgo was made pursuing his arrest.