BAFTA will now not revoke particular person awards won by disgraced news presenter Huw Edwards, Sky Recordsdata understands.

Edwards, 63, turned into as soon as given a suspended sentence in September after pleading guilty to three counts of “making” shameful pictures of young of us.

A review of his seven BAFTA Cymru presenting awards turned into as soon as launched earlier this 300 and sixty five days.

Now, in a letter sent to participants seen by Sky Recordsdata, chair Sara Putt has launched a forfeiture path of can be launched from 2025, with steering on what circumstances would lead the academy to maintain in mind revoking a competitive award.

These will consist of entries proven to own frail duplicitous and/or illegal systems for the length of creating the work, and likewise winners who’re later convicted of a excessive legal offence ensuing in a jail sentence, whether or now not suspended or now not.

In her letter, Ms Putt stated it’d be “impossible” to apply these criteria retrospectively as the awards span the last 78 years.

“The set aside would we moderately plan the line?” she requested. “Would we pick to finest peep support one, 5 or 50 years? We agreed it’d be impossible to produce that wisely.”

She stated the organisation had been “shrinking” by Edwards’ arrest and subsequent conviction, and that it had raised “deeply complex questions” about whether or now not historic awards won in competition could possibly well well moreover soundless be removed retrospectively.

In 2021, BAFTA suspended actor and director Noel Clarke’s membership and his then now not too long previously awarded prominent contribution to British cinema gong, after allegations were made against him.

On the opposite hand, honorary awards equivalent to BAFTA fellowships and particular awards – and prominent contribution prizes – could possibly also be revoked as they’re proficient by the academy, meaning they’re now not “won” in competition.

BAFTA has in no plan rescinded a competitive award after presentation.

The review into competitive awards has concluded “there are essential grounds in which an award won in competition could possibly well well moreover soundless be reviewed and presumably rescinded” and that BAFTA desires to supply more clarity – which is why the contemporary forfeiture path of can be launched.

“No resolution is good and there could possibly well well moreover very wisely be cases where the outcomes of this review are tested in some unspecified time in the future, so we are able to review these guidelines and processes along with our other awards guidelines each and each 300 and sixty five days,” Ms Putt stated.

Edwards won prizes for presenting at the BAFTA Cymru awards a quantity of instances over the years, the valuable being in 2002 for his Election Alternate point to.

The BBC also won a BAFTA in 2012 for its royal coverage of Prince William and Kate’s wedding, which turned into as soon as fronted by the Welsh presenter. It is far understood the broadcaster could possibly also preserve this award.

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At some point of Edwards’ sentencing, Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket heard how he paid as much as £1,500 to a paedophile who sent him 41 illegal pictures between December 2020 and August 2021, seven of which had been of the most excessive form.

Of these pictures, the estimated age of most of the young of us turned into as soon as between 13 and 15, but one turned into as soon as frail between seven and 9.

As portion of his sentence, he turned into as soon as told he must befriend a sex offender therapy programme and 25 rehabilitation sessions.

He turned into as soon as also required to imprint the sex offenders’ register for seven years and pay £3,128 in costs and a victim surcharge.