A former BBC producer has been found guilty of downloading child abuse images.

Dylan Dawes, 50, had more than 6,000 indecent images of children on his devices when they were seized by police.

Dawes denied having a sexual interest in children and said someone else may have used the devices.

Cardiff Crown Court heard the married father-of-three was arrested in 2022 after officers searched his home and found indecent images on four devices, including a hard drive, laptop and two iPads.

Dawes, who worked with presenters including Final Score host Jason Mohammad and comedian Rhod Gilbert, told the court he had ‘fairly regularly’ viewed ‘adult pornography’ but denied having downloaded indecent images of children.

Harry Baker, prosecuting, said the images had been found on four of Dawes’s devices – which were sometimes left overnight at the BBC’s Cardiff headquarters – and it was unlikely this was an ‘unhappy coincidence’.

Judge Eugene Egan told the jury: ‘The prosecution effectively said to you: “What are the chances of that?”‘

Dawes joined the Corporation while living in London in 2000 and started his job at BBC Wales after moving to Cardiff in 2001, where he worked as a producer on radio shows and podcasts.

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