Huw Edwards’ shocking mugshot revealed as he avoids jail but is put on sex offenders’ register for seven years
HUW Edwards avoided jail after he paid a vile predator £1,5000 for sex child images and videos.
The former BBC presenter, 63, was given a six month suspended sentence for two years.
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He must also attend a 40 day sex offender treatment programme and 25 rehabilitation sessions.
The veteran newsreader was put on the sex offenders register for seven years – meaning he has to notify the police of his whereabouts.
Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring told Edwards he had concluded that the custody threshold had been crossed.
The appropriate sentence would be 12 months for the most severe abuse images, he told the court.
However, taking into account the mitigation and early guilty plea, the sentence was reduced to six months suspended for two years.
The magistrate said Edwards did not pose a risk to the public or children and an immediate custodial sentence was not necessary because evidence showed he could be rehabilitated.
The court heard how Edwards was given the images in a depraved WhatsApp chat by convicted paedo Alex Williams.
The defendant was sent 41 images – including two videos of a boy as young as seven – by Williams.
Edwards avoided a jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.
He had faced a maximum 12 months in jail for the offences after a judge kept the case at magistrates court rather than sending it to crown.
Seven of the images fall under Category A – the most serious classification.
This included two moving images of a young child, possibly aged between seven and nine years old.
He also had photos of other children aged between 13 and 15 stored on his phone.
A further 12 images were classed as Category B and 19 as Category C.
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