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's awful. That we should've come to a point where we can't realistically imprison people for this.

Everyone is entitled to representation in court and entitled to a fair and just trial and sentencing.

They should make an example of Huw.
Just as they made an example of the far right rioters in August by giving them lengthier sentences than they would ordinarily have been given.

She’s clearly being facetious.

I doubt that very much. Once this is over I guarantee he’ll disappear never to be heard of again. In fact I’d put quite a lot of money on it.

I honestly think we need a law saying that if you receive CSAM images that you are legally obliged to report it to the police.

I hope so.

From the BBC newsfeed on my phone:
If Edwards does get a prison sentence, the maximum he can get from the magistrates' court is 12 months - we were already told that the case won’t be sent to crown court.

Neither. But if he doesn't get a custodial sentence then what the hell consequences are there for these abusers of children?
They should give him, and every other person who commits these crimes, zero sympathy and the strongest prison sentences possible.

Disgusting details coming out. My heart goes out to all the poor innocent children who are abused for the sexual gratification of men like him. Disgusting

Here's a comparison with sentencing remarks. BBC ex-Panorama producer didn't go to jail. Suspended sentence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59985907

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/R-v-Mellaney-Sentencing-Remarks-140122.pdf

The problem is that there's not enough prison spaces, the police arrest so many men each month. This crime has really surged in the last few years. There's a huge backlog and investigations can take 2-4 years until it goes to court.

But his lawyers would be able to appeal, given that most offenders aren't given custodial sentences (see the article I posted). Unlike people who take part in riots who almost always are, at least in recent times.

I don’t care about his mental health or the ‘perfect storm’ that was going on at this time or him pleading guilty or his claim about not remembering. I am sick to death of the lengths they seem to be going to excuse him of his crimes. It is sickening that men like him get away with this shit and worse. The scum who sent him the images got away with a suspended sentence so I expect the same for this waste of space.

It is pretty stomach churning. His poor wife and children.

There's no lengths people won't go to to excuse paedophilia

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The scum who sent him the images got away with a suspended sentence so I expect the same for this waste of space.

I think that a suspended sentence is fairly standard in this type of case. Look at the sentencing remarks for the BBC producer I just posted. It's the same kind of case.

I've just seen that the Magistrate in the middle of sentencing remarks for Huw Edwards has said

Mr Goldspring said: “I accept that your mental health at the relevant time and you had no memory of viewing any particular image and do not know whether you did. “You did not store the images, you did not keep them and you did not distribute them.”

This is building up to a suspended sentence.

Poor mental health.
Suicidal
Puritanical father
Elderly mother.

How many more excuses?!

Apparently they’re trying to reconcile the marriage, as sorry as I feel for his family I don’t understand any spouse who could stay with someone who committed such a heinous crime.

Lockdown was also blamed (indirectly).

I'm listening to the live BBC feed and the amount of "mitigating circumstances" being quoted about him being in a 'perfect storm' at the time, that he suffers with depression, that he wanted to take his own life, the worry about the impact on his family, mental health issues that have gone on for a while now, ONLY a low risk threat going forward, the fact he had a difficult relationship with his own father, he'll be vulnerable in prison (?!?!?!)...blah blah blah. Poor Huw.

Boo fucking hoo. He's a paedophile and needs a custodial. End of.

This 💯
He is pathetic.

6 months suspended for 2 years

This is building up to a suspended sentence.

I’ll be surprised if it’s even that. Sexual Harm Order, community service and probably a minimal term on a register. Absolutely no chance of a custodial sentence to be carried out. Such a disservice to those with mental health issues and/or having had a poor childhood never mind what little it shows towards the victims who have a life sentence due to people like him.

Slap on the wrist. Disgusting.