Disgraced former BBC newsreader and paedophile Huw Edwards has ignored pleas from bosses to return the £200,000 he was paid after his arrest.
BBC Chairman Samir Shah said the presenter has been asked numerous times to give the money back, The Sun reported.
Mr Shah told Times Radio: ‘We’ve been asking him and asking him and asking him.
‘We’re getting legal advice on it.’
He made a direct appeal to Edwards, 63, saying: ‘If Huw is listening, give it back. Just give it back.’
The former News At Ten anchor was on £475,000 a year at the time of his arrest in November 2023.
While some BBC staff were aware he had been held, he was not sacked at the time.
In April 2024 he was allowed to step down on medical grounds.
Huw Edwards was handed a six-month suspended sentence after admitting three charges of ‘making’ indecent photographs
Former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards departs the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London
Huw Edwards has ignored calls from the BBC to return the £200,000 he earned after his arrest
The former News At Ten anchor was on £475,000 a year at the time of his arrest in November 2023
Edwards, 63, pleaded guilty to having indecent images of children on July 31 at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, including 13 of the most serious category A and one of a child as young as seven.
He was among the BBC’s highest-paid, with its accounts putting him in a pay bracket of between £475,000 and £479,999 for 2023/24 . This was a £40,000 pay rise from 2022/23, when he was paid between £435,000 and £439,999.
At the time the Welshman, who boasted a six-figure salary, was not dismissed despite some more senior BBC staff being aware of his arrest, with reports he paid a teenager £35,000 for sexual images later emerging last September.
He was handed a six-month suspended sentence sparking outrage among campaign groups who branded it ‘ludicrous, absurd and embarrassing’ that he had been allowed to walk out of court instead of being sent to prison.
As well as a suspended sentence, Edwards was also put on the sex offender register and was told he had to take part in rehabilitation sessions.
At the time BBC boss said there were discussions regarding the six-figure sum Edwards had earned following his arrest saying the BBC could possibly go down the legal route to retrieve the wages.
Edwards is currently being divorced by his wife Vicky Find, who is also the mother of his five children, with his £4.75 million Dulwich home also up for sale.
