The former star presenter of the BBC Huw Edwards He was sentenced on Monday by a British court to six months in prison after admitting having accessed indecent images of minorsalthough will not go to prison the sentence being suspended for two years while he undergoes a rehabilitation program.
He 63-year-old journalistonce one of the channel’s most prominent figures, learned the sentence at a hearing held today before Westminster Magistrates’ Court (London) amid great media expectation, which he attended with a serious demeanor.
At the hearing, Judge Paul Goldspring said he had taken into account the defendant’s guilty plea in handing down the sentence and found Edwards did not pose a risk to the public or children.
Goldspring therefore did not consider an immediate custody sentence necessary as the evidence showed the presenter could be rehabilitated.
The conviction suspended implies that The defendant must submit to and complete a sex offender program.as well as other rehabilitation sessions, work that will be supervised.
Edwards’ name will also be placed on the sex offenders’ register for seven years, which means he will have to report his whereabouts to the police.
The one that was one of the names BBC emblemwhich announced to the world the Death of Elizabeth II On September 8, 2022, pleaded guilty last July to three charges for “taking indecent images” of minors between December 2020 and April 2022.
The crimes that were charged against him referred to 37 images shared in WhatsApp conversations during that period.
Specifically, He was charged with possessing six category A images (involving penetrative or sadistic sexual activity), 12 images of category B (of non-penetrative sexual acts) and 19 C-category photographswhich includes all those that do not belong to the previous categories.
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The concept of “taking images” is interpreted in English jurisprudence as including several different acts, from downloading a photo to sharing it or producing it, according to experts.