Will Huw Edwards get a custodial sentence?

The indecent images offences have a statutory maximum of five years' imprisonment for possession of images and 10 years' imprisonment for the distribution, taking or making of such images. Sentences passed for an offence cannot be higher than the statutory maximum.

So HE didn't even get a slap on the wrist.

fancythat

eazybee

The answer to the question is Yes; custodial sentence of six months suspended for two years.

Disgraceful.

I agree.

I know someone, younger, who did something similar.
Same sort of punishment I think.

His fiance had no idea. His parents too apparently.
All sort of repercussions to them as well, as you can imagine.

The man himself left the area. He was well known in it[slightly perviously respected for social positions he had help]. People, no longer trusted him or wanted him around.

That is the problem, these low lives move on to another part of the country and do it all again knowing full well, if they get caught they will serve or not serve a sentence and then be released to do it again and again and again.

No surprise.

Is it the same length of sentence that anybody else who had committed the same offence would receive?

Then we wonder why this country is full of paedophiles, rapists, murderers and sex traffickers.

We do not have a justice system fit for purpose. Shame on the government.

Disgusted but sadly not surprised
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Children will continue to be abused while there is still a demand for such images. The people who buy them must be properly punished if there is to be any incentive to stop. A suspended sentence for this behaviour makes no sense.

eazybee

The answer to the question is Yes; custodial sentence of six months suspended for two years.

Disgraceful.

I agree.

I know someone, younger, who did something similar.
Same sort of punishment I think.

His fiance had no idea. His parents too apparently.
All sort of repercussions to them as well, as you can imagine.

The man himself left the area. He was well known in it[slightly perviously respected for social positions he had help]. People, no longer trusted him or wanted him around.

It’s awful that every televised state occasion has been tainted by this man. I even feel uncomfortable thinking back to how I sat glued to the television on the day of the Queens funeral. How has he got away with a custodial sentence? Those poor children.

That is so ridiculous! A mere slap on the wrist in effect.

The answer to the question is Yes; custodial sentence of six months suspended for two years.

Disgraceful.

Smileless2012

Williams should have been locked up and Edwards should be too. Anyone viewing these vile images are as culpable of child abuse as the ones who make them.

It's a life sentence for the victims.

Totally agree. I never understand the argument some make that 'only' viewing images somehow makes it a lesser evil. Each image is a child who has been abused and will have to live with the consequences of that. They are just as bad as those making the images in the first place.

Williams should have been locked up and Edwards should be too. Anyone viewing these vile images are as culpable of child abuse as the ones who make them.

It's a life sentence for the victims.

I knew a man in his thirties who was jailed for possessing indecent images of children. The repercussions following the sentence were immense; he lost his home, his job and his marriage; social services insisted his wife divorce him otherwise they would take their children into care. The punishment was just although his dysfunctional childhood and upbringing could have been taken into consideration. I hope Huw Edwards receives similar and the plea of mental health issues is not used as mitigation.

It does seem strange that the sentence the supplier of the images Williams got was non-custodial.

"Williams, now 25, was arrested in August 2022 and his phone and other devices were seized. He had been using the Tor browser to access the dark web and download and distribute indecent images of children.
He was handed a 12-month suspended sentence. One of the people he had been sending images was Edwards"

Said in court, Edwards asked not to send him underage images

I have just been reading what is being said this morning in court. The images are deemed more serious because they are moving images. Those poor children.

A few years back my GP got struck off and jailed for 6months for similar offences. As a figure or respectability in the public eye and of trust I think Edward’s sentence should be the highest that can be imposed. It should not be down to how many prison places there are.

For me there is no punishment tough enough to punish the sick perverts who get pleasure from watching the sexual degradation of babies and children. What will a fine mean to Huw Edwards? Absolutely nothing. A disgusting individual and I hope they lock him up and throw away the key.

Can anyone post this quote which I have tried to find online, so as to get it right before posting, but it is very elusive. It is from a novel (probably by Jane Austen) and is said by someone railing about the effect on their morals of the romantic novels that young women could get sent to them by subscribing to the 18th century circulating libraries. She says that someone who is so fond of handling the leaves of these pernicious books will sooner or later long to eat the fruit. It is followed in the book by a spirited defence of novels.

Collecting pornographic photographs of children must surely lead on to a desire to take part?

The prisons are being emptied to make space so I think it highly unlikely he'll end up inside. Although they may make an example of him because he's famous. Has he ever paid back any of the exorbitant salary he received whilst suspended?
I think the BBC should be in the dock too, it seems like one of the last bastions (along with the police, House of Commons and fire service) of the old boys club.

No, it's unlikely he'll get a custodial sentence.

He should be boiled in oil!
No punishment is harsh enough for anyone doing vile things to children, whether the it's the acts themselves or the sickening selling, passing on or viewing of these horrendous images.
I'm usually a peaceful, non violent person but when I consider the huge, everlasting damage these hideous people cause, not only to the abused child but the whole family, I would gladly light the flame.

Let us hope his fine, if that is the punishment, is a lot more than £200,000 - not that anyone should be earning that sort of money from our public broadcasting service - wholly ridiculous!

I doubt he will if the offence is only viewing images, but if he has passed them on or has participated physically in an illegal act, then yes he will. What we should hope for and expect is for him to be treated in exactly the same way as any other criminal who has done the same.