Daily Mirror – Huw Edwards’ shame
“Appalling” is the single-word headline The Daily Mirror uses to describe the Huw Edwards case. It quotes the BBC who said he betrayed audiences who put their trust in him.
Huw Edwards sent sick paedophile cash and ‘Christmas gift’ in exchange for child abuse images
Huw Edwards sent a “Christmas gift” and large sums of money in exchange for abusive images of children, a court has heard.
The disgraced BBC News At Ten anchor pleaded guilty in July this year, to three counts of making indecent photographs / pseudo-photographs of a child. Seven of the 41 images were the most serious type. Now, Westminster Magistrates Court has heard that the 63-year-old sent money for the sickening images.
Legal representatives defending Edwards claimed Edwards did not pay Williams for the “purposes of receiving indecent images”. Opening the case at the court, prosecutor Ian Hope said: “It is clear from the face of the WhatsApp chat recovered that a deal of the chat between Alex Williams and Mr Edwards was sexual in nature. It is also clear that Mr Edwards was paying not insignificant sums of money – low hundreds of pounds on an occasional basis – to Alex Williams which Mr Williams directly asked for on several occasions, as gifts or presents, apparently off the back of sending abusive images to Mr Edwards, about which images they chatted.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
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Editorial 17 September 2024.
Huw Edwards’s sentencing dominates Tuesday’s newspapers. The front pages react to the former BBC presenter being handed a suspended sentence, meaning he won’t spend a minute in jail. Edwards was given a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years after he admitted charges of making indecent images of children.
Unsurprisingly, the papers react with anger as more details of his crimes emerge. Some of the papers ponder whether Edwards was given a lenient sentence due to his fame.
Elsewhere, there’s a dash of US political news on several papers as America continues to deal with the aftermath of a second assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.
