Page 6 | Huw Edwards Sentencing

JoyousPinkPeer · 2024-09-16T07:33:23+00:00

Will Huw get a worse/lighter sentencing today because of his fame? YABU ... Worse sentence YANBU ... Lighter setence

Mama2many73 · 16/09/2024 20:09

Havanawinter · 16/09/2024 08:51

He won’t go to jail. It’ll be a suspended sentence or community order.

Well you called that correctly! I think its a shocking sentence for his actual crimes.

Haveanaiceday · 16/09/2024 20:07

If its an issue that jails are over crowded and he can't be kept safe due to being well known he could be kept under house arrest with limited visitors, no access to computers and be given some community service that is very strictly supervised. Maybe a nicer environment than he deserves but it would be better than the laughable sentence he got.

ncforcatquestion · 16/09/2024 20:01

crumblingschools · 16/09/2024 19:54

@ncforcatquestion why do you think he hasn’t committed a crime?

It's not that I think that it's that there seems to be something off. He has pled guilty while maintaining he was not interested in obtaining these illegal images and can't remember it happening, and he has apologised- this isn't something you can just apologise for and anyone will want to hear it

AyrshireTryer · 16/09/2024 20:00

Images of children as young as 7 and some people here are concerned about the perpetrator. What a fcuked up country.

YellowphantGrey · 16/09/2024 19:59

crumblingschools · 16/09/2024 19:54

@ncforcatquestion why do you think he hasn’t committed a crime?

I think they are on the wind up

ExquisiteEmelda · 16/09/2024 19:59

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Oh well poor lad, we’d better leave him alone then. What with not getting into Oxford as well, aww what a hard life he’s had 😭

crumblingschools · 16/09/2024 19:54

@ncforcatquestion why do you think he hasn’t committed a crime?

Gr8bolsoffyre · 16/09/2024 19:43

Regardless of everything else being discussed. (Rightly or wrongly) his sentence is totally normal in the UK for the crime he committed. It was a first offence, not a huge amount of images were ‘made’ and there was no attempt to contact anyone under age.

Very sadly, given then magnitude of indecent image offences in the UK, if he hadn’t been Huw Edwards then he wouldn’t have even made the local paper.

ncforcatquestion · 16/09/2024 19:39

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ncforcatquestion · 16/09/2024 19:27

AyrshireTryer · 16/09/2024 19:23

What else would he have to do to be a paedophile?

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Clearly intend to see it

AyrshireTryer · 16/09/2024 19:23

ncforcatquestion · 16/09/2024 19:18

No I'm not I haven't determined if he is one

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What else would he have to do to be a paedophile?

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No I'm not I haven't determined if he is one

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No I'm not

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OrdsallChord · 16/09/2024 19:08

GPTec1 · 16/09/2024 19:03

The other man got 12months suspended but thats a different trial, different evidence and a different bench.

Yes i do think it got him a lesser sentence, he certainly knew what to do/say and which treatment to seek out, do you think he did any of that off his own bat?
As was his defence "i cannot remember any of it..." "Get treatment" "MH issues"

All contributed to a more lenient sentence.

What this case does show though is we need some real reform on consistent sentencing.

Ok, so what sentence would Edwards have got if he wasn't famous? Prison? Btw if you think legal aid criminal lawyers never mention mental health in mitigation and none of their clients would ever know to bring it up of their own volition, you've clearly not been around many of them. It comes up phenomenally often in legal aid law!

What we actually need is reform of the sentencing guidelines. And some prison space too.

GPTec1 · 16/09/2024 19:03

The other man got 12months suspended but thats a different trial, different evidence and a different bench.

Yes i do think it got him a lesser sentence, he certainly knew what to do/say and which treatment to seek out, do you think he did any of that off his own bat?
As was his defence "i cannot remember any of it..." "Get treatment" "MH issues"

All contributed to a more lenient sentence.

What this case does show though is we need some real reform on consistent sentencing.

ncforcatquestion · 16/09/2024 19:01

So he's saying he doesn't remember this but he's pled guilty anyway

Ireallycantthinkofagoodone · 16/09/2024 18:57

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 16/09/2024 18:55

Bloody hell, watching this on the 6 o'clock news has made me SO angry! He brought up in court as part of his defence that he felt an outsider at the BBC because he hadn't been able to get into Oxford! This was in the context of poor mental health. Poor Hugh!

That made me incredibly angry too!! He is completely deluded.

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 16/09/2024 18:55

Bloody hell, watching this on the 6 o'clock news has made me SO angry! He brought up in court as part of his defence that he felt an outsider at the BBC because he hadn't been able to get into Oxford! This was in the context of poor mental health. Poor Hugh!

OrdsallChord · 16/09/2024 18:48

GPTec1 · 16/09/2024 18:42

It is a 1/3rd off for a guilty plea, so thats 2 years.

Plenty of people go to jail for having cat A images, the most vile of the 3 categories.

Are you really suggesting that having a top legal team didn't help Edwards defense?

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If you mean it got him a shorter sentence, no. Didn't need to in this instance, or are you saying you think he was ever going to get more than the supplier?

I'm sure it helped in lots of ways in that eg he'll have had the luxury of knowing he'd chosen who he wanted, he will have been able to pay for any extra time that might've been needed to explain things to him, he won't have had to worry about statutory charges like those on legal aid do. It's still better to go through this being rich than being poor, even when the outcome is the same.

Bollihobs · 16/09/2024 18:47

muddyford · 16/09/2024 18:08

A friend's husband got exactly the same sentence for the same offence. He had been a headmaster.

Good grief.

Seriously, this is ridiculous.

Bollihobs · 16/09/2024 18:45

ncforcatquestion · 16/09/2024 18:44

Did he ?

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Yep. Gross isn't it.

ncforcatquestion · 16/09/2024 18:44

Bollihobs · 16/09/2024 18:42

He did ask. He even specified an age range, 14-16, that's "specifically" asking. Saying that "he's just an idiot" is utterly, utterly ridiculous.

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Did he ?