What a joke, no justice for those poor kids. These crimes will continue if we don’t set examples of people like this. Mental health should not be an excuse for these types of crimes.
GunstarGreen on
Pictures of pre-teen girls on his phone and no jail time. He’s fucking lucky the prisons are full
AnyHolesAGoal on
I assume the fact that he didn’t produce them or send them factored into the sentence (details are still light right now in the article).
Still not blocking the sender and reporting them to the police immediately is awful and deserves some actual prison time.
GhostMotley on
Our ‘justice’ system is completely non functional.
Hopefully he has pissed all his cash away and can’t just go silently in to a luxury late life.
Poor kids robbed of justice.
downvoteconfirmed on
He’s lucky he was involved with child porn, not sending mean tweets.
Other-Crazy on
Tweets can get you sent down but you walk away from this?
He’d be in fear in prison? And???
Fucking joke.
concretepigeon on
Not even unpaid work. A couple of “treatment” sessions and as long as he’s smart enough to not get caught again and he’s off with absolutely no punishment.
AonghusMacKilkenny on
Absolute fucking joke. One rule for us, another for our elite. Why does our establishment insist on giving the far right more ammo at every turn?
AlfaG0216 on
There’s people who posted very bad stuff on Facebook during the riots who got 21 month prison sentences lol what the fuck even in this country anymore when self confessed nonces walk free?
ampmz on
Before anyone starts saying “a normal person would be in prison” – no they wouldn’t. Possession of indecent images normally results in a suspended sentence. Edwards has got a standard sentence.
Worldly_Table_5092 on
I think this sort of stuff goes on your CV for the BBC
Chanson_Riders on
An expected sentence given the circumstances: first offence, few images, no distribution, and what appears to be genuine remorse. He threw away all that he had and for what, a few pictures he didn’t even seem to have much interest in.
I hope he sorts out whatever is going on with him and he stays away from anything tempting online. We’ll likely never hear about him again. And hopefully not.
probably420stoned on
The bloke who sold him the images only received a 12 month suspended sentence as well!!
3vi1face on
Another pedo getting off free but tweeting gets you a prison sentence. This is setting this weird norm that we’d rather have pedophiles walking the streets than Somerset who says something mean lol this country Is a joke
ColonelBagshot85 on
Piss-poor sentence!! The harshest punishments should be for those who harm children, yet they always seem to get lenient sentences, especially the nonces.
BobBobBobBobBobDave on
He should have got a harsher sentence.
But it isn’t the judge’s fault. For a first offence of this kind he was unlikely to get a custodial sentence. Especially when the prisons are full.
FinalEdit on
I swear the live coverage of this right now is disgraceful. Sp many reporters seem to be making excuses for him. Lamenting how dangerous it would be for him to receive a custodial sentence, celebrating his remorse, fearing for his mental state and mourning the loss of his marriage.
One even went as far as to say he would “love to sit down with him and get his side of the story”
Only occasional mention of the victims and the harm his offending has done. Shocking stuff.
AlcoholicCumSock on
So he just escapes with his millions, while kids continue to be raped all for the pleasure of cunts like him?
Fucking stinks!
SojournerInThisVale on
I’m convinced that people committing these sorts of crimes are being let off because of fears about what will happen to them on the inside. It’s a complete joke of a sentence.
Gone_4_Tea on
Nonce got mental health dint he so drinking so wasn’t thinking clearly. Boohoo. Time society took a firmer line to support and provide but not enable and excuse so much. If you got mental health and substance abuse issues get help not hide because society can’t tolerate like it does at every ones expense.
Agreeable_Falcon1044 on
There was a local lad who got 4 years for similar offence…and the consensus around here was that was soft, as nobody was made aware of him until his first court appearance and he had spent the previous year and a bit (since arrest!) in local groups where young kids were present.
That sticks in the throat. This just beggars belief.
DuttySQZ on
Are they joking?! Wtf! The child/children was/were abused for them images and he gets away with it! If that was money he would be in prison what a fucking joke!
znidz on
That’s a shame. It’d be safer for children if he was tried and sentenced by judge Lord Justice Captive Bolt-Gun.
strodey123 on
Oh to be rich and famous, be able to get away with anything and not have to take accountability for my actions.
Shameful.
remedy4cure on
Just Stop Oil protesters got 5 years for conducting a zoom meeting.
RunRinseRepeat666 on
Ok – so no prison for peados but if you tweet something bad it’s prison ! Ok got it
RossCooltard on
Not surprising on a “leftist” echo-chamber quite a few comments defending the sentencing for this type of behaviour.
MukwiththeBuck on
It astounds me that someone whos probably covered 100s of stories like this thought he would get away with it? Some way it’s like addiction, so maybe he couldn’t help himself?
Apparently his ‘relationship’ with the guy who sent him the photos (of which he admitted to having 41 images) lasted over a period of 4 years. The only evidence available was their exchanges on WhatsApp.
That’s the only evidence the Chief Magistrate could base his sentencing on.
It’s infuriating. What must be lovely is to have the money to pay a KC to represent you – a luxury most of us could not afford ever.
I didn’t think he’d see the inside of a jail cell.
Those poor children abused so he and other creeps like him could enjoy their degradation have my sincere sorrow in that they are the only ones who have been damaged forever.
The brass neck of his claiming ‘mental health issues’ is cynical as it is shocking.
So here’s how you do it:
1) Have lots of money to pay for expensive legal representation. ✔️
2) Say you can’t remember a darn thing. ✔️
3) Say you’re suicidal. ✔️
4) Say you had a domineering father. ✔️
5) Say you found lockdown really hard. ✔️
6) Say you’re really sorry. ✔️
7) Produce an expensive report from a psycho-sexual expert that impresses the Beak. ✔️
8) Say you didn’t pay for the p*rn; you merely gave the supplier of it money for ‘gifts’ ✔️
9) Job done!✔️
Serious-Amoeba1141 on
Our legal system does not care about women or the safety of children
Both him and the man who provided him the illicit pictures have a combined 2.6 years suspended sentence for child pornography
Where is the justice
Thenedslittlegirl on
Not really surprised given the guy who actually sent him the images also got a suspended sentence and he had far more of them. The sentencing for paedophiles is a joke.
KamalasBigToe on
No surprise there.
Dig a few coins up though and you’ll get over 10 years. What a fucking joke this country is turning into.
Apez_in_Space on
He maintained a relationship with someone providing these images, over an extended period of time. Not sure if his contact was the producer but it sounds like they weren’t far removed, so there is no argument that Huw Edward’s didn’t at least motivate the production of this content.
Of course he’s evidently a pedophile too.
The BBC should sue him for their reputational damages.
This is not justice enough for this kind of action. His face is recognisable enough that he’ll be watching his back for the rest of his life, and I do hope something’s coming to him.
Piece of shit.
nacnud_uk on
At least he wasn’t involved in a zoom call. So, child’s lives are worth less than some profit streams…ahhh…wait…you’re not ready for that chapter yet.
Goodspheed on
Years in jail for posting the wrong opinions on social media. No jail for being a nonce.
Bouczang01 on
This material doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Scumbags like Huw are the market for them.
If there are no consequences for paedophiles, nothing will change.
Absolute joke. The justice system is a disgrace in this country. Basically, he got a slap on the wrist for having sexual images of underage kids. How is that protecting kids?
Makes me sick.
starwars011 on
Can’t help but make comparisons to the riot sentences. People made threatening Facebook posts and went to prison extremely quickly. Huw Edwards was found with images of the worst kind, and committed crimes over the course of years, yet doesn’t go to prison. That’s not a victimless crime just because he’s ‘only’ buying the images.
ParkingAd2858 on
Thank God he didn’t say any meanie words on Twitter during his ‘illness’, he might have actually gone to prison.
steak_bake_surprise on
So basically “you’ve been a naughty boy, please don’t do it again”.
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What a joke, no justice for those poor kids. These crimes will continue if we don’t set examples of people like this. Mental health should not be an excuse for these types of crimes.
Pictures of pre-teen girls on his phone and no jail time. He’s fucking lucky the prisons are full
I assume the fact that he didn’t produce them or send them factored into the sentence (details are still light right now in the article).
Still not blocking the sender and reporting them to the police immediately is awful and deserves some actual prison time.
Our ‘justice’ system is completely non functional.
Needs complete reform and re-evaluation.
> commit paedophilia
_gets 6 months in suspended sentence_
> [participate in a slow-march protest](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law)
_gets 6 months in jail_
?????
Hopefully he has pissed all his cash away and can’t just go silently in to a luxury late life.
Poor kids robbed of justice.
He’s lucky he was involved with child porn, not sending mean tweets.
Tweets can get you sent down but you walk away from this?
He’d be in fear in prison? And???
Fucking joke.
Not even unpaid work. A couple of “treatment” sessions and as long as he’s smart enough to not get caught again and he’s off with absolutely no punishment.
Absolute fucking joke. One rule for us, another for our elite. Why does our establishment insist on giving the far right more ammo at every turn?
There’s people who posted very bad stuff on Facebook during the riots who got 21 month prison sentences lol what the fuck even in this country anymore when self confessed nonces walk free?
Before anyone starts saying “a normal person would be in prison” – no they wouldn’t. Possession of indecent images normally results in a suspended sentence. Edwards has got a standard sentence.
I think this sort of stuff goes on your CV for the BBC
An expected sentence given the circumstances: first offence, few images, no distribution, and what appears to be genuine remorse. He threw away all that he had and for what, a few pictures he didn’t even seem to have much interest in.
I hope he sorts out whatever is going on with him and he stays away from anything tempting online. We’ll likely never hear about him again. And hopefully not.
The bloke who sold him the images only received a 12 month suspended sentence as well!!
Another pedo getting off free but tweeting gets you a prison sentence. This is setting this weird norm that we’d rather have pedophiles walking the streets than Somerset who says something mean lol this country Is a joke
Piss-poor sentence!! The harshest punishments should be for those who harm children, yet they always seem to get lenient sentences, especially the nonces.
He should have got a harsher sentence.
But it isn’t the judge’s fault. For a first offence of this kind he was unlikely to get a custodial sentence. Especially when the prisons are full.
I swear the live coverage of this right now is disgraceful. Sp many reporters seem to be making excuses for him. Lamenting how dangerous it would be for him to receive a custodial sentence, celebrating his remorse, fearing for his mental state and mourning the loss of his marriage.
One even went as far as to say he would “love to sit down with him and get his side of the story”
Only occasional mention of the victims and the harm his offending has done. Shocking stuff.
So he just escapes with his millions, while kids continue to be raped all for the pleasure of cunts like him?
Fucking stinks!
I’m convinced that people committing these sorts of crimes are being let off because of fears about what will happen to them on the inside. It’s a complete joke of a sentence.
Nonce got mental health dint he so drinking so wasn’t thinking clearly. Boohoo. Time society took a firmer line to support and provide but not enable and excuse so much. If you got mental health and substance abuse issues get help not hide because society can’t tolerate like it does at every ones expense.
There was a local lad who got 4 years for similar offence…and the consensus around here was that was soft, as nobody was made aware of him until his first court appearance and he had spent the previous year and a bit (since arrest!) in local groups where young kids were present.
That sticks in the throat. This just beggars belief.
Are they joking?! Wtf! The child/children was/were abused for them images and he gets away with it! If that was money he would be in prison what a fucking joke!
That’s a shame. It’d be safer for children if he was tried and sentenced by judge Lord Justice Captive Bolt-Gun.
Oh to be rich and famous, be able to get away with anything and not have to take accountability for my actions.
Shameful.
Just Stop Oil protesters got 5 years for conducting a zoom meeting.
Ok – so no prison for peados but if you tweet something bad it’s prison ! Ok got it
Not surprising on a “leftist” echo-chamber quite a few comments defending the sentencing for this type of behaviour.
It astounds me that someone whos probably covered 100s of stories like this thought he would get away with it? Some way it’s like addiction, so maybe he couldn’t help himself?
[Considering only 20% of people convicted for this see a jail cell, ](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/13/eight-in-10-convicted-in-uk-over-child-abuse-images-avoid-prison-nca-says) you could argue this country is a pedo haven.
Apparently his ‘relationship’ with the guy who sent him the photos (of which he admitted to having 41 images) lasted over a period of 4 years. The only evidence available was their exchanges on WhatsApp.
That’s the only evidence the Chief Magistrate could base his sentencing on.
It’s infuriating. What must be lovely is to have the money to pay a KC to represent you – a luxury most of us could not afford ever.
I didn’t think he’d see the inside of a jail cell.
Those poor children abused so he and other creeps like him could enjoy their degradation have my sincere sorrow in that they are the only ones who have been damaged forever.
The brass neck of his claiming ‘mental health issues’ is cynical as it is shocking.
So here’s how you do it:
1) Have lots of money to pay for expensive legal representation. ✔️
2) Say you can’t remember a darn thing. ✔️
3) Say you’re suicidal. ✔️
4) Say you had a domineering father. ✔️
5) Say you found lockdown really hard. ✔️
6) Say you’re really sorry. ✔️
7) Produce an expensive report from a psycho-sexual expert that impresses the Beak. ✔️
8) Say you didn’t pay for the p*rn; you merely gave the supplier of it money for ‘gifts’ ✔️
9) Job done!✔️
Our legal system does not care about women or the safety of children
Both him and the man who provided him the illicit pictures have a combined 2.6 years suspended sentence for child pornography
Where is the justice
Not really surprised given the guy who actually sent him the images also got a suspended sentence and he had far more of them. The sentencing for paedophiles is a joke.
No surprise there.
Dig a few coins up though and you’ll get over 10 years. What a fucking joke this country is turning into.
He maintained a relationship with someone providing these images, over an extended period of time. Not sure if his contact was the producer but it sounds like they weren’t far removed, so there is no argument that Huw Edward’s didn’t at least motivate the production of this content.
Of course he’s evidently a pedophile too.
The BBC should sue him for their reputational damages.
This is not justice enough for this kind of action. His face is recognisable enough that he’ll be watching his back for the rest of his life, and I do hope something’s coming to him.
Piece of shit.
At least he wasn’t involved in a zoom call. So, child’s lives are worth less than some profit streams…ahhh…wait…you’re not ready for that chapter yet.
Years in jail for posting the wrong opinions on social media. No jail for being a nonce.
This material doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Scumbags like Huw are the market for them.
If there are no consequences for paedophiles, nothing will change.
The judge wants looking into.
[https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/rex-v-huw-edwards-2/](https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/rex-v-huw-edwards-2/)
Direct link to the judges sentencing remarks
Absolute joke. The justice system is a disgrace in this country. Basically, he got a slap on the wrist for having sexual images of underage kids. How is that protecting kids?
Makes me sick.
Can’t help but make comparisons to the riot sentences. People made threatening Facebook posts and went to prison extremely quickly. Huw Edwards was found with images of the worst kind, and committed crimes over the course of years, yet doesn’t go to prison. That’s not a victimless crime just because he’s ‘only’ buying the images.
Thank God he didn’t say any meanie words on Twitter during his ‘illness’, he might have actually gone to prison.
So basically “you’ve been a naughty boy, please don’t do it again”.
What a joke!