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

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?

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.

The court didn't find him guilty. He pled it. He isn't acting in line with what he's been convicted of (as if he doesn't understand the gravity) and he's in a mental hospital

Did he ?

Yep. Gross isn't it.

Good grief.

Seriously, this is ridiculous.

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.

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.

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

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.

No I'm not

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

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

Clearly intend to see it

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

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 😭

I think they are on the wind up

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