Former British TV information presenter Huw Edwards, the long-time face of the BBC’s flagship information programme, was given a suspended sentence at a London court docket on Monday after admitting making indecent photographs of youngsters.
Edwards, 63, pleaded responsible in July to 3 prices of constructing indecent photographs of youngsters, regarding 41 unlawful photographs he was despatched by way of WhatsApp — together with two pornographic movies of a kid aged between seven and 9 years outdated.
Seven of the unlawful photographs have been of essentially the most critical class, prosecutor Ian Hope mentioned, including that each of these movies have been marked as “learn” on WhatsApp. In response to the second video, Edwards requested the person sending them: “Any extra?”
Decide Paul Goldspring sentenced Edwards to 6 months in jail suspended for 2 years, that means Edwards is not going to go to jail until he commits one other legal offence in that point.
The offence of constructing indecent photographs of youngsters pertains to the pictures that have been despatched to Edwards. Prosecutors didn’t allege Edwards had actually made the pictures in query.
Edwards’ lawyer Philip Evans mentioned: “He needs the court docket, via me, to understand how profoundly sorry he’s. He recognises the repugnant nature of such indecent photographs and the damage that’s finished to those that seem in such photographs.”