Huw Edwards Sentencing

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Will Huw get a worse/lighter sentencing today because of his fame?

YABU ... Worse sentence
YANBU ... Lighter setence

Except he did. He sought the provider of the pictures out specifically. He viewed the images of under age children and the videos and referred to them as "amazing"

He requested not underage then when offered them replied "go on then"

Or are you going to claim next someone had his phone and pretended to be him?

I could never excuse a convicted paedophile whose confessed to doing it but you do you

At least a 6-month sentence, suspended for 2 years, means he'll be under more scrutiny than if he was sentenced to 6-months custodial and released in 73 days (40% of sentence is the current time served).

I'm not interested in doing that, just the truth

I guessed he wouldn't go to jail, wonder if he will pay the money back either?

It doesn't 'look' good? YEs, there are idiots in the world,that is true...

The man paid money, a LOT of money for images of CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.

I don't think for one SECOND that he did it accidentally, or that he was lured into anything, or that he is even remotely sorry other than being sorry for being caught and destroying his career that is.

According to The Times his LinkedIn profile last week was 'briefly' updated to being available for charity work... the man is DELUDED. Which charity did he think would welcome a convicted sex offender with open arms? Barnardos?

So when is your campaign to get his conviction overturned going to start?

Are you doing it for other paedophiles that have been convicted? I think Ian Watkins denied it too.

You don't have to call me an idiot

Of course he was never going to jail

The crime is not taken seriously enough, he has caused immense suffering he has played the system by using his mental health (plenty of men are in prison who have severe mh issues or in secure units and unsurprisingly many sex offenders once caught are suicidal and has money to pay for a top legal team

He is a clever man who is also very manipulative who deserved to be punished even if its a short period of time

Huw texting ‘don’t send any underage pics’ is so cynically sly. Because at the same time he was receiving underage pics and not saying ‘why have you sent me this pic? Do NOT send anymore’.

He referred to the underage pictures as "Amazing"

I'm waiting for the defenders on here to say it was an autocorrect

The disclaimer on the grounds of mental health shows that, despite the guilty plea, he takes no ownership of his actions whatsoever.

A selective memory is an unsusprisingly common phenomenon at hearings such as this. A huge memory-hole to this extent, along with the implication that his inability to remember makes him somehow not in control of what he did, shows a total abdication of responsiblity. To claim this convincingly is a hugely high bar for mental competency, usually requiring the kind of detachment from reality that goes along with a serious psychosis.

This is obviously BS and I can only imagine what the Magistrates must have made of it. I doubt they were fooled for an instant.

But he was sentenced inline with normal procedure and precedents. A six-month suspended sentence for a first offence is more than I thought he'd receive.

What's the usual sentence?

I think that research has shown that there are far lower rates of re offending for this crime in particular where non immediate custodial sentences are given.

Also the prisons are full. Famously.

He obviously deserves to go to prison as does everyone who commits this crime, but what people deserve isn’t always the best thing.

Oxfam possibly?

Magistrates deal with the more minor offences (yes I know, I know). Custodial sentences can't exceed 6 years.

Alex Williams who supplied the images was only given a 6-month suspended sentence, so this outcome was predicable. They take into account mitigating and aggravating factors. Some images were in the most serious category but he pleaded guilty, it was a first offence, and no doubt his lawyers made a suitably, nauseatingly eloquent case for previous good character.

If he offends again he'll be banged up for that crime and have to serve the six months' suspended sentence he was given here.

He'll now disappear into the ether.

These men really do think they're untouchable. Even after they're caught.

I wonder what it is about our society that could possibly have given them that impression?

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

There is a lad who was in my year at school who has been given a 14.5 year sentence for having sex with underage children, grooming and sharing indecent images. Then last year, he was convicted of other things and added another 18 months.

Celebrities should be treated the same as normal people when it comes to the law.

If a normal man did similar to Huw Edwards then he would probably get 5-6 year sentence.

If a normal man did similar to Huw Edwards then he would probably get 5-6 year sentence.

Unfortunately not.

Isn't the starting sentence 3 years for possession of a category A image.

I doubt most people could pull the legal team Edwards has, it certainly does look like money has got him his freedom.

Meanwhile organise a "peaceful" climate protest on the M25 and get 6 years.

@GPTec1 the man who supplied the images only got 12 month suspended sentence

Twisting my words a lot here, I didn't say ANY of those things, just trying to stick to the facts. If this had been some random guy it would not have even made the local paper, doesn't make it right though. Save your wrath for the men & women that actually groom and abuse, this is where the system is broken.

He received 14.5 years because he committed a contact offence.

Hugh Edwards didn't get a lenient sentence because he's a celebrity.

The majority of people do not get a prison sentence for a first time indecent images offence. Suspended sentences or community orders are very, very common.

No it doesn't. The supplier didn't get sent to prison either, and the discount is because of his early guilty plea which virtually everyone who does that qualifies for.

This is important, because actually what happened today is normal and representative. The people who think he got special treatment don't understand how typical it is for those who commit this offence to avoid prison.

Why do you think you’re nearer the truth than the court?