The Sun – Huw outrage: Sickening
The Sun tops with Huw Edwards being spared jail time as it emerged in court that he paid up to £1,500 to a paedophile who sent him indecent images of children. The paper goes on to say that many people will be questioning the sentence and asking how the former presenter has been able to avoid prison considering what the paper calls the “sickening” revelations in court.
‘I love you, but you kill me’ Huw Edwards’ vile messages to teen victim & depths of grooming revealed in Sun documentary
VILE messages sent by Huw Edwards to the teenager at the centre of our original revelations about the shamed BBC newsreader today lay bare the depths of his grooming.
A new Sun documentary into the presenter’s sickening behaviour shows how he sent a series of controlling and abusive messages to the young man, who was sending him sexual images in return for payments of tens of thousands of pounds.
The exchanges reveal Edwards’s secret Jekyll and Hyde character as he switches between repeatedly telling his victim that he loves him – before viciously abusing him in foul-mouthed tirades.
Edwards also gives the young man instructions on using PayPal and a Monzo bank account so he can send him cash.
At his sentencing today, it was separately revealed how Edwards was also sending money to the convicted paedophile who was supplying him with indecent images of children, via WhatsApp.
Alex Williams was sent between £1,000 and £1,500 by Edwards.
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.