The Independent – Huw Edwards faces jail over shocking child abuse images
The Independent says Huw Edwards faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children – including two sexual videos of a boy as young as seven. At the top of the paper is a report on Iran’s vow to revenge against Israel for the airstrike on Tehran that killed a Hamas political leader. The mother of one of the victims of the Southport stabbings has called for rioters to stop the violence.
Ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards pleads guilty to making indecent images of children
Huw Edwards faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children – including two sexual videos of a boy as young as seven.
The former BBC News at Ten anchor, 62, admitted at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to having 41 indecent images of children on his phone, seven of which were category A, the very worst kind.
Also among the 377 sexual images discovered by police – sent to him by 25-year-old convicted paedophile Alex Williams from Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, between December 2020 and August 2021 – were 12 category B images, and 22 category C images.
Five of the category A images featured children aged between 13 and 15, while at least two were moving images that depicted a child believed to be “between seven and nine”, the court was told.
Iran vows revenge after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran
Iran has vowed revenge for the assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in an airstrike in Tehran, an attack that brings the Middle East to the brink of a region-wide war.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian. The assassination took place hours after Israel claimed to have killed a commander for Iran ally Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital Beirut in retaliation for a deadly strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed revenge for the killing of Haniyeh, saying Israel “prepared a harsh punishment for itself” by killing “a dear guest in our home”.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
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Editorial 01 August 2024.
Thursday’s front pages lead with the news that the former BBC news presenter, Huw Edwards, has pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.
Almost all the papers – tabloids and broadsheets – lead with the shocking story, which only came to light earlier this week.
The ongoing riots over the Southport knife attack make several front pages, as locals of the area and some of the victim’s families express anger over the violence from the protesters.
Elsewhere, the front pages feature images from yesterday’s Olympics – a day to remember for Team GB which picked up five medals on Wednesday, including two golds. Team GB’s success dominates the back pages.