Huw Edwards avoids jail despite senior officials criticising lenient sentencing schemes.
Disgraced BBC newsreader Huw Edwards, 63, was given six months suspended sentence for two years, after admitting three charges of "making" indecent photographs after being sent the images by a convicted paedophile over WhatsApp.The judge said his crimes were "extremely serious offences" but that he did not present a danger to children.
Victims' Commissioner London, Claire Waxman, called for for the Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme to be made more accessible in her reply to Tugendhat. The Unduly Lenient Sentencing Scheme allows anyone to ask for certain Crown Court sentences to be reviewed by the Attorney General's Office. Edwards' sentence cannot be reviewed as the scheme is only applicable to certain Crown Court sentences, as Waxman called attention to on X.
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