Disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards has been spared jail for receiving sexual images of children as young as seven from a convicted paedophile as he was handed a suspended sentence today. The Mail has more.
Huw Edwards was emotionless in the dock today after being handed a suspended sentence for receiving sick images of children as young as seven from a convicted paedophile.
The 63-year-old previously admitted three charges of “making” indecent photographs after he was sent 41 illegal images by convicted paedophile Alex Williams over WhatsApp.
At Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, Edwards held his hands together and leaned forward throughout his sentencing hearing as he was handed six months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard Edwards told Williams “go on” when asked if he wanted “naughty pics and vids” of somebody described as “yng (sic)”.
The court also heard Edwards paid Williams hundreds of pounds after he sent him pornographic images, but his defence barrister Philip Evans KC said the broadcaster did not make payments to Williams in order to receive indecent images of children.
The prosecution said Williams asked Edwards for a “Christmas gift after all the hot videos”. Prosecutor Ian Hope said:”‘Alex Williams says he wants some Air Force 1 trainers that cost around £100, and Mr Edwards offers to send him £200.”
Of the indecent images he received, the estimated age of most of the children was between 13 and 15, but one was aged between seven and nine.
Defence barrister Philip Evans KC said Edwards was “truly sorry” and “recognises repugnant nature” of the images sent to him. The journalist claimed alcohol and the decline in his mental health played a part in the sick chats. …
Edwards, one of the BBC’s most famous stars who presented the Queen’s death and King Charles’ coronation, has not been on TV since he was named by his wife as the high-profile presenter at the centre of a sexual pictures scandal in July 2023.
In the completely separate case, Edwards was accused of paying £35,000 to a young person in exchange for sexual images.
The Met Police confirmed that no criminal offence was committed in this instance.
The mother of the teenager told the Sun that Edwards has caused ‘immense pain and suffering’ and should be locked up.
Worth reading in full.
Representing Edwards, Philip Evans said his client had “no memory of viewing any of the images” (which is a very odd thing to claim in light of the messages where Edwards repeatedly asked for more). He added in mitigation:
Mr. Edwards wishes to apologise to the court. He wishes the court to know how profoundly sorry he is. He recognises the repugnant nature of such images. He apologises sincerely and makes it clear he has the utmost regret. He recognises he has betrayed the priceless trust of so many people.
There is a prospect of rehabilitation. The concept of making images here is not a concept of taking photographs or moving images. He was sent all of them.
It was not payment for the purpose of receiving indecent images. Mr. Edwards positively told Mr. Williams not to send images of people who are underage. That is important.
Stop Press: Our Editor-in-Chief has given a quote to the Telegraph about our “two-tier criminal justice system”:
Toby Young, the Director of the Free Speech Union, said: “Last month, a man was jailed for re-posting three offensive images about Muslims on Facebook, even though he deleted them shortly afterwards and apologised.
“Yet Huw Edwards, who pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, has been given a suspended sentence. It’s hard not to conclude we have a two-tier criminal justice system in which Islamophobia is punished more severely than paedophilia.”
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The 5 tiered system of injustice.
At the top are the elite who can commit any number of crimes including pedophilia and who are immured from penal consequences.
Having child porn on your phone is for anyone else, a prison sentence.
Not for Huw and his chums.
As we saw with the criminality in the Rona fascist scamdemic, these people are never punished.
Of the indecent images he received, the estimated age of most of the children was between 13 and 15, but one was aged between seven and nine.
I wonder which member of Parliament will be the first to question the sheer injustice in this instance.
Huw Edwards must be grateful to his KC for reminding the court that Edwards did not pay for the paedophiliac images he simply sent the provider a gift so that he could buy some new trainers. What a thoughtful chap. Anyway, thank goodness he didn’t shout at a police dog.
Have we been told what sentence Mr Williams received? Well he won’t be sentenced will he? Probably in line for an MBE for services to mentally ill BBC “stars.”
Exactly the point this guy is making here. Everybody with an intact moral compass must surely feel the same. It’s like these judges just make up the rules as they go along and pluck sentences for non-crimes out of their backends whilst letting perverts go free to keep on perving;
”Make this make sense! Some proper Two-Tiered Noncing going on here!
Another WIN for the state funded pedo factory the BBC, Huw Edwards GOT A SUSPENDED sentence, NO JAIL TIME!
The other day A 67-year-old man has been jailed for 20 months for chanting “you’re not English any more” at the police.”
https://x.com/dapperlaughs/status/1835659605176709535
Ah, but did he explain how very sorry he was and that he had no memory of ever chanting those words?
That’s the rotten legal system today – that poor guy had a legal lawyer so was pressurised to plead guilty.
Your last paragraph sums it up perfectly. I am disgusted at what has happened to law and order in this country, and I know a lot of ex-military and police who feel exactly the same. Many in both camps could see the start of the changes and hung on purely for pensions, etc, completely disheartened and throughly depressed about the trajectory of services we gave the best years of our lives to.
Yes I can understand that sentiment. No sane, right-thinking person would ever be okay with what is happening around us. The police, the judiciary, both utterly corrupt through and through. The evidence of this just keeps on coming. Politicians have always been that way, of course, but this Labour government seems to be on another level. It’s just one smack in the face after another. I’ll bet they take pensioners’ bus passes off them by Christmas, because this is surely on the cards. But on the topic of the Huw Edwards debacle, I think this guy speaks for us all. Everyone everywhere is beyond disgusted. It at least reminds me that most folk are decent, good people, because sometimes it’s easy to think otherwise;
https://x.com/CartlandDavid/status/1835762999480709297
Labour are no worse than the Tories.
I wonder which members of the Establishment Huw threatened to expose.
Terrorist supporters, antisemites, perverts and paedophiles can all rest assured the Beeb provides a safe space for them, apparently, with no discrimination shown because all manner of deviants and odious scum are welcome. It would seem they are indeed an equal opportunity employer in that regard. It’s also a bonus that the ‘law’ ( Pff! ) looks kindly on such human detritus, so they get to potentially enjoy decades of freedom to indulge in their warped, degenerate behaviour. Don’t get caught though, or you too might receive a stressful few months ( still receiving your top whack pay check, pension secure, however ) which culminates in a bit of a ticking off by a man in a wig ( who’s of the same persuasion, undoubtedly ) with a generous side helping of public humiliation…but then everybody will forget about it in six weeks time when a new controversy comes to the fore.
If you were Huw Edwards wouldn’t you just move to another country, grow a beard, change your name and continue to live your life where nobody knows you? How can somebody like that ever leave the house again? He was beamed into everybody’s sitting rooms for donkey’s years!
Kiddie porn = fine (at least for purveyors of propaganda).
Exercising your right to (supposed) free speech on the internet = LOCKED UP.
The mitigation for this boils down to;
I was mad
I’m sorry
I’ve got cash
I’m part of the left wing establishment
I know people
Where is the fairness and consistency in our system? Where is the punishment, where is the lesson to others?
Can his sentence be challenged/ reviewed? One of the criteria is “some child sex crimes and child cruelty”, but this sounds like some KC could weasel out of it. Any thoughts?
Gov.uk allows a challenge, only one required but many might send a message? (Pigs flying by).
my view is that we are being softened up,( I have said this for a few years now),to accept that children are free to have relations of an Adult nature with Adults if they consent, just look at what is being taught to children in state schools and private from kindergarten, they are taught that Mastu—–n is something they can and should do, that they can be girls if they are boys and visa versa, in Primary their sex education includes acts and words that would in the 90’s been classed as hard core porn, Parents are not allowed to interfere, even know what is going on. Rotherham and the other centres of ethnic men multiple raping and abusing girls as young as 11 was overlooked, ignored. Epstein the clients who visited and abused young girls have never been brought before a judge.
The trying to change the word Paedophile to Minor attracted Person!, and now the glorious site of two men swapping hardcore pictures of child abuse being let off with a go home and don’t let us catch you again telling off.
I would lay money down that we will in a couple of years be informed by our betters that if a 10 year old wants to start a relationship with a mature Adult, thats fine, the parents don’t need to be informed as the child has given its consent and to object will risk the child being removed from the family.
I think you are right.
The same happened to homosexuality; they gradually shifted the opinion from perversion —> acceptance —> celebration.
Not to mention abortion: abhorrent —> regrettable —> normal.
I suspect they will do the same to sexual relationships with children.
By and large they will try to normalize anything that is considered horrible and sinful by Christianity.
There’s been a loosening of judicial retribution for accessing kiddie-porn in recent years, for sure.
Maybe it has something to do with lack of prison space latterly.
An acquaintance of mine was banged up for a period (memory fails but it was about 6 months) about 5 years ago; delicacy prevented me inquiring too closely into the nature of the offence but I’m sure large sums of payment won’t have been involved.
I guess it’s more important to TTK to hobble the Right than to protect children.
One of their own
It was ‘is mental ‘ealth my lord and he has no recollection of w*nking over the pictures of nude children. OK then the full force of the law in this case is Huw is let off with a smack bottom and no Bara Brith for a month. Ooh my lord you are awful.
I understand that the sentence is in keeping with other similar cases (whether you like it or not).
In which case sending someone to prison for a mean tweet seems disproportionate.
In those cases that had a lot of media coverage recently, the courts set out to “discourage the others”, perhaps with no concern about the capability of the system to carry it out.
This Huw Edwards case has had a lot of media coverage recently. Did the judge also not want to “discourage the others” in this case for some reason?
I do think this case and that of the bloke who sent the photos who was also given a suspended sentence, sets out the moral chasm between the public and the “elite”, politicians, judiciary, academics, billionaires etc in that the sexual exploitation of children for Adult pleasure seems to be something that is perfectly normal and acceptable in their world, Jeffrey Epstein, Jimmy Saville, Rotheram, Oxford, Telford, Edwards etc, it goes on and on (Don’t you pity their children? what must their lives be like), whereas people who protest and are disgusted at the murder and violence against children are imprisoned for attending protests and daring to call it out as abhorrent on social media are imprisoned for months, even years.
How can we have trust in our so called legal system, politicians and police when it appears that their view of what is morally repugnant and the pit of degradation to the public is something to which they seem to think is akin to a bit of shop lifting of sweets from a shop.
Who is the greater danger to us the tax paying public, the retweeting Granny or the men who enjoy sending photos of children, being abused and defiled, clearly the judge in this case had little care for children, Shameful and truly shocking.
How sorry he is he was caught.
Disgusting pervert.
The BBC in microcosm.
“For receiving”.
is that similar to “finding a machete in his hand” after a murder.
Not a machete in his hand. A chopper.
Funny how “Free Gear Keir”, as someone called him after he let his Muslim patron buy his wife’s clothes, which is creepy in itself, has not interfered with these child porn cases, in contrast to his reportedly ordering the judiciary to hand the 1000 arrested white working class protesters “mandatory custodial sentences”.
The internet brings receipts, this one from 2014. Of course I remember the Jill Dando murder but I can’t seem to remember much talk of a motive. Or was it supposed to be some crazed stalker? But I definitely didn’t know she’d been speaking up and raising the alarm about a paedophile ring at the BBC. Did anybody else know this? Too ‘conspiracy theory’ or do you think this is legitimately why she was killed?
https://x.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1835665165087379913
My fellow readers have said enough and I salute them for their insightful comments. It seems a religious (probably fictional) figure is more sacred than some poor pre teens’ right. We have a clear law against paedophilia and its associated crimes, and distribution and viewing of such images must be punished severely. Just because old Huw and cry has a top lawyer lying about his ‘condition’ blah blah shouldn’t allow him to go unpunished. I hope the DPP appeals this crazy sentencing by a um, dubious justice.
Having taken a bit of time to digest this, I think what I’ve read of real legal brains is that the sentence is reasonable in terms of which similar offender get jail time for such matters.
What I think is driving the view that he should have received imprisonment is that he has lived a fine life off the public purse. There is plenty of weird and kinky behaviour available that anyone with such a mind can engage in legally. There is no end of pornography available via the internet, with almost any combinations to float your boat. There is plenty of gratification within the pretty loose boundaries of our society. He simply should know better than to go into areas that will have him standing in front of a magistrate if he gets caught,
He’s ruined his life, reputation and legacy, personal relationships and so forth. The calls for him to go to prison then are from people who maybe don’t think he’s fallen far enough off the pedestal. I tend to agree.
The defence lawyers claims Edwards had “no memory of viewing any of the images”. Presumably he is no longer offended by such repulsive images so that they are no longer memorable for him.
As a well known broadcaster and public figure he should have been treated much more harshly as a warning to others that such depravity is utterly unacceptable, whoever you are.
Those still paying for their BBC license fee, paid for Edwards’s legal team Well done
Utterly disgraceful sentence.
The children this disgusting paedophile paid to have abused have received no justice.