over indecent images of children

this is the guy who announced the queens death

Huw Edwards has been spared jail for accessing indecent images of children as young as seven.

Prosecutor Ian Hope told the court Edwards had been assessed as posing a “medium risk of causing serious harm to children”.

In sentencing remarks, district judge Paul Goldspring added he was at “considerable risk of harm from others” if he had ended up in prison.

random bullshit go defense incoming:

A separate report conducted by a psychosexual therapist said: “The feelings of being desirable and unseen alongside Mr Edwards’s unresolved sexual orientation created a perfect storm where he engaged in sexual infidelities and became vulnerable to people blackmailing him.”

The judge also said that Edwards was of “previous good character” and, until now, had been “very highly regarded by the public” - whom to many he had broken the news of the late Queen’s death.

[…]This created an “enduring cognitive dissonance and low self-esteem”, which was “compounded by a sense of being inferior” by not getting into Oxford University and going to Cardiff instead and “being therefore something of an outsider at the BBC”.

0 time in prison. Another banger https://www.google.com/news.sky.com/story/huw-edwards-what-was-his-defence-after-disgraced-veteran-bbc-presenter-avoids-jail-13216325 https://news.sky.com/story/amp/huw-edwards-former-bbc-presenter-given-suspended-sentence-over-indecent-images-of-children-13214373

The quotes are awful