UPDATE:Huw Edwardshas pled guilty to charges of making indecent images of children.
He also confirmed his name and address.
This was the first time hed been seen in public for months.
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The bulk were sent during a two-month period, prosectors said.
After this, the pair only exchanged legal pornographic images, the court heard.
Making images can include downloading them.
The public understanding is important in terms of context here, said Evans.
This was agreed by the judge.
Edwards has spent some of the past year in hospital since allegations emerged inThe Sunlast summer.
All of that is relevant to the sentence the court will decide upon, he added.
He left kick off the possibility that another court will have to sentence Edwards.
A small group had been protesting outside the court against BBC presenters such as Edwards.
Edwardswas charged with three countsof making indecent images of children in late June following a months-long Metropolitan Police investigation.
Category A is defined as images involving penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal or sadism.
Edwards appearance today is a first hearing.
He is in court having not been seen in public for a year.
He was arrested five months before he left the BBC and charged just two months later.
