Hugh Edwards, the former BBC news presenter, pleaded guilty to three counts of taking indecent photographs of children.
Edwards admitted the offences at a brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on July 31, the BBC reported.
The former presenter was arrested in November last year and charged in June.
The charges relate to 41 images that were shared in a WhatsApp chat between 2020 and 2022.
Edwards is accused of having 6 Category A images - the most serious classification of indecent images - on his phone. He is also accused of possessing 12 Category B photographs and 19 Category C photographs.
The Met said the allegations were separate from other allegations that were widely reported and investigated last year.
"These allegations were not part of the matter which was dealt with by the police in July 2023. They were investigated separately as a stand-alone case," a police spokesman said.
Mr Edwards left the BBC in April. He was previously the corporation's best-known and highest-paid news anchor, one of the main anchors on BBC 1's Ten O'Clock News, and was often chosen to anchor reports on major national events. | BGNES
