Huw Edwards, the BBC’s highest-paid newsreader – he earned between £475,000 and £479,999 in 2023-24 – is facing 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children, which included two sexual videos of a boy under nine. The Mail has more.
The disgraced BBC News star, 62, kept seven category ‘A’ images of the very worst kind on his phone after being sent them on WhatsApp by another paedophile.
The sick stash of 41 child porn images showed youngsters aged between seven and 14, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.
He remained emotionless as he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, between December 2020 and August 2022.
His admission now leaves the former news star’s glittering four-decade career in tatters – and he faces up to 10 years in jail.
Edwards was arrested on November 8th last year and charged on June 26th. He resigned from his £475,000-a-year role at BBC three months ago having kept news of his arrest a “secret” from pals, former colleagues said.
The father-of-five moved out of the family home in Dulwich after separating from his TV producer wife, Vicky Flind.
Surrounded by eight police officers, Edwards arrived at Westminster Magistrates’ Court wearing black sunglasses, a blue tie, white shirt and navy-blue suit.
There were scenes of pandemonium as he made his way through the media melee to the court building, with photographers tripping to the floor to take photos of the sex predator – while protesters yelled at him.
Edwards, of Wandsworth, southwest London, spoke to confirm his date of birth, address and admit the three charges.
After entering his pleas, the disgraced newsreader sat staring into the distance, with his head tilted slightly upwards, and adjusted his tie as Ian Hope, prosecuting, laid out the case against him.
The court heard that Edwards had been involved in online chat with an adult man on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021, who sent him 377 sexual images, of which 44 were indecent images of children.
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It’s incredibly sad and telling that even in health care, people are mislead about health and diet!
If this poor lady was advised to follow a low carbohydrate or zero carbohydrate lifestyle for even 4 weeks, she would have lost a considerable amount of fat and have many ailments cured too… Instead, she was no doubt advised to use this snake oil.
Is it really that sad? Was she really so misinformed? She didn’t know that a good diet and exercise gets you to a healthy weight?
To me it seemed as if she just couldn’t do it the long hard way and resorted to a pharmaceutical short cut.
And I don’t judge her for it. I really don’t have a problem with people using drugs to try to lose weight. It’s their responsibility to find out the risks, weigh them up against the possible benefits and make their own decision.
The nanny state doesn’t need to get involved beyond making sure the pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies are completely open and transparent with the information they provide.
Hey, she gambled and lost. It happens. Not a tragedy in my books.
Sure, but did she know the risks? Was the information correct, or was it a COVID ‘vaccine’ job all over again? Did the pharmacy advise her that the injection could kill her, or did they just hand it over?
My view is that by the time one reaxhes adulthood one should understand that anything you ingest has pros and cons, and especially pharmaceutical drugs. This is not a hard lesson to expect people to learn before they become grown ups.
That includes nuances such as, if so.ethi g is very new, be wary. If someone is making money from telling you it works and it sounds it sounds too good to be true, be wary.
These are basic common sense notions that used to be widely held not so long ago, when people were more self reliant.
I generally agree. I would favour emphasising a more “natural” solution but that is not always easy – this vid is interesting, from someone who knows all about health and fitness and diet, is the opposite of lazy or inactive, but has an eating disorder that is hard to control, who is currently taking small doses of this stuff, with success: I Tried The “Miracle” Fat Jab | Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro – Drugs For The Lazy?
So you agree with the resident victim-blaming sociopath that this woman’s death is neither sad nor tragic? Well there’s a surprise!
Sorry, far be it from me to interrupt this longterm bromance. Please continue…
Death is always sad. Whether she’s a “victim” – I am not sure. It depends on what information has been released about this drug, whether information has been withheld deliberately. Most drugs have side effects. I object to being forced to take medical treatments, I object to medicine regulators being enablers using our money, I object to Big Pharma lying about their products, I am deeply sceptical about most “miracle drugs”, I object to my tax money being spent on dangerous or useless products, but I also believe in freedom of choice and caveat emptor.
I didn’t say it wasn’t sad. I said it wasn’t a tragedy.
Two very different things.
What I think you’re missing is the fundamental point.
The article is clearly being manipulative trying to present this woman as a victim of a bad information and pharma gone rogue again.
I just don’t agree with that. That’s my point. And I don’t like the “every death is a tragedy” “poor person tragically misled by the evil or corrupt or broken system” arguments. They’re manipulative.
I think my post may have been misunderstood.
I genuinely don’t judge people who for example take weight loss medication. I am only too aware of human frailty and so totally respect people’s decision on how they live their lives.
Strange as it may seem to somebody such as yourself, yes it is sad that a person died through their own naivity and wishing for a shortcut to losing weight, just like I think it’s sad people died due to believing government propaganda and took a toxic jab they never ever needed. Needless deaths are sad. This is the general sympathetic feeling of people who are not callous or psychopathic by nature, and I’m sure her family would disagree with your cold-hearted, dismissive opinion and absolutely view her death as a tragedy. Do you even hear yourself?
I suppose it boils down to how one defines the word tragedy.
If a woman who dies in a medical intervention of her choice is a tragedy, which word do you keep in reserve for hundreds who die drowned and buried alive in a flood? Or dozens of people who burn to death in a raging tower fire?
I don’t see this lady’s death as anything different to say a mountain climber dying on an attempt on K2, for example.
And just because I don’t engage in virtue signalling calling any death a tragedy does it mean I’m callous or psychopathic as you imply. I’m just not a virtue signaller.
I suspect about 90% of obesity problems are due to bad diet, especially processed food. So I’m very sceptical of these “jabbing” solutions.
When I was young, obesity among young people was virtually unheard of. Now apparently about a third of schoolchildren are overweight. What are they going look like in 30 years’ time?
Well, you can say there is a certain consistency in eating a lot of processed food and then turning to even more processed pharma products to correct the problem.
Yeah, as they say: “medical science has made massive progress in the last 50 years – there are hardly any healthy people left!”.
There are reportedly 23 deaths so far linked to Mounjaro in the UK.
For those worried about their.weight they could try eating less & exercising more.
It’s always worth remembering that the drug merely suppresses appetite.
And they still allow it? Mind you they allow another jab that kills and injures tens of thousands….. Incredible that some country stopped a canine jab after just 10 deaths.
The problem I’m finding with my weight loss journey is that while i eat less, as I’m exercising more, the old adage of ‘muscle is heavier than fat’ kicks in and my weight stays the same.
The problem for any dieter though is finding a diet that’s suitable for the long term, so all these short cut fixes, whether its some miracle wonder drug or a slimming company like slimmers world or weightwatchers don’t work in the long term as they don’t change habits.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-ozempic-scam-and-safer
Very similar, and similarly dangerous weight loss drugs it would seem.
Incidentally being obese is not normally a cause of diabetes. It’s the other way round – diabetes causes obesity.
It’s that pesky immune system degrading proper insulin production..
And said degradation is caused by….
Vaccines
mmRNA gene therapies.
A glorious opportunity for the MHRA to demonstrate that OF COURSE IT TRACKS THE SAFETY OF DRUGS VERY VERY CAREFULLY.
Whilst sad about what has happened to this lady, that’s what jumped out with klaxons and flashing lights to me: MHRA tracking yellow cards!!!! Couldn’t manage it during the biggest experiment on humanity?
Except the Lady appears to have obtained her drug online. So the regulation goes out the window, even for prescription drugs, if you can find someone outside of the UK to send it to you.
You wanna lose weight fast?
OK. Think about it.
There were no fatties in Auschwitz when the Russians arrived. Think about why that was. It’s really simple: NO FOOD. Exercise had almost nothing to do with it (neither too much nor too little).
I am not proposing that fatties be put into labour camps. Certainly not! I merely propose that fatties be honest with themselves about the reason they are fatties: it is because they EAT TOO MUCH.
When they have openly admitted this, they can then go on to address the precise reasons behind their overeating. There are many and often very complex reasons why each fatty eats too much. And they can be very difficult for each fatty to overcome.
But without first admitting that they are fatties for the simple reason that they eat too much, they will never overcome the problems causing them to eat too much.
You are right, but I think there is a bit more to it: it’s not just the quantity of food but the quality of it.
Processed food is very poor in nutrients. Because it’s full of crap, it doesn’t fill you up and, as I result, you will be hungry again soon afterwards, which will make you want to eat more, but again, you will just eat more crap. And the cycle continues.
Effectively you eat a lot (so you’ll get fat) but your body gets very little out of it.
I can testify this experience: mostly we avoid processed food (my wife, PBUH, cooks every day) but occasionally when we resorted to buying processed food (e.g, cooker broken) the contrast was astonishing.
You’re right, but I think the underlying problem is many people eat the wrong kind of food.
Far too much carbohydrate, sugar, low fat alternative, lactose free, gluten free, vegan, plant based, most processed vegetable oils , it’s all rubbish.
Eat dairy, meat, freshly cooked vegetables, fresh eggs. Set aside the time to cook from fresh ingredients. Avoid ready meals like the plague.
And get exercise.
Spot on.
These people eat a lot but in actual fact their bodies are starving.
And yep, get some exercise.
Yes they eat too much. But they also eat the wrong things and quite often at the wrong time.
To be fair to nurses, police etc it is harder for people working shifts to regulate their body clock to eat at the right times.
I recall an Hibernian frioend used to say that it is not your genes its what goes in your gob that makes you overweight. Cruel but mostly true.
I accept there are genetic or body reasons why different people react to food differently, as they do to alcohol and tobacco.
Genuine question – so is this stuff more or less deadly than mrna covid quackcine?
Because for many people ay least it brings some benefits. Unlike the mrna covid jabs.
I wouldn’t say the mRNA Covid jabs didn’t bring anybody any benefits. I’m sure Pfizer’s senior management benefited very handsomely.
A very good question.
Another question might be as to when she had last received her Mrna mix and whether this might have played a part in her demise.
Probably not I have not seen elsewhere reports of the covid jabs leading to wholesale organ failure, just pericarditis myocarditis turbo cancer impaired immune system, and reproductive disfunction.
Oh yes,and an increased risk of catching a cold.
The takeaway here. Steer clear of this drug, it injures and possibly kills.
Very sad, but she could have lost weight by eating a low-carb, high protein and natural/animal fat diet.
I think the picture shows that some people’s idea of “a wee bit of extra weight” is a bit off kilter.
It was Mike Adams of Natural News who tried to warn people that these new weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and others are derived from LIZARD VENOM, in particular that of a venomous reptile called the “Gila monster”, native to southwest of the US and the north of Mexico.
In an article from last year, which I can’t locate now, he described how the venom works by PARALYZING THE STOMACH MUSCLES to prevent the stomach from being emptied, leaving a false feeling of fullness in the patient, thereby decreasing the desire for food. He also pointed out the horrific side-effects of the Gila monster venom, including continuous vomiting because your stomach muscles continue to be paralyzed even after stopping the injections, sometimes for YEARS.
The article below from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland describes the connection with lizard venom:
The rise of Ozempic: how surprise discoveries and lizard venom led to a new class of weight-loss drugs – Faculty of Medicine – University of Queensland
A Gila monster (Latin name “Heloderma suspectum”).
People are injecting themselves with POISON from this reptile.
” …Unlike snakes, the Gila monster and beaded lizards lack the musculature to inject venom immediately. They have to chew the venom into the flesh of a victim. Heloderma venom is used only in defence.”
Colorado man was killed by venom from his pet Gila monster, autopsy finds
But he lost a lot of weight before dying.
It is true about the snake peptides. It sounds crazy and outlandish and superstitious but not really if you look at what they are trying to bring into being. It fits perfectly when you understand the rest of it.