TV Star Bought Child Porn - Avoids Prison

Huw Edwards bought child pornography on the internet. Now the British TV star is sentenced to six months' conditional imprisonment.

» Updated: October 01 2024

» Published: September 16 2024

TV Star Bought Child Porn - Avoids Prison
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Huw Edwards must also undergo a treatment program for sex offenders, according to British media.

The sentence was originally one year in prison, but since Huw Edwards confessed and does not pose a threat to the public, the sentence was reduced and made conditional, explained the presiding judge Paul Goldspring, according to BBC.

With the conditional sentence of six months, a kind of probationary supervision for an additional one and a half years follows, which means that Edwards can be imprisoned if he commits a crime within two years.

The scandal surrounding Huw Edwards shocked many Brits and shook BBC when it broke out last summer. The 63-year-old had led the prestigious news broadcasts of the venerable TV company for many years and was the one who announced Queen Elizabeth's death on TV two years ago.

The program host was charged with possession of child pornography between December 2020 and August 2021 and admitted in court that he had paid thousands of pounds for the images on the internet.

Edwards was arrested in November last year and charged in June this year. BBC has been criticized for continuing to pay the program host's salary and not firing him despite knowing about the allegations of child pornography crimes for several months before they became public.

Already last year, Huw Edwards was suspended from his work at BBC after media reports that he had paid a young man for sexual images.

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