Incident. It also falls into category one for harm, since people feared serious violence not only on that day but on subsequent days and that day but on subsequent days and that starting point for a category one a offence without the aggravating factor of racial aggravation is a high level community order with a range of up to 26 weeks imprisonment. Given the context and the background of this incident and others around the country, i would have placed this offence at the top of the range. I must now consider the level of racial or religious aggravation involved and apply an appropriate uplift to the sentence in accordance with the guidelines. I am careful not to double count. I find that racial or religious aggravation was the predominant motivation for the offence and you were associated with a group which was promoting hostility based upon colour, race, religion. In those circumstances, i will increase the starting point that i consider to be appropriate. As i have said, your positi
Category a filmed a young boy. The man told edwards the boy was quite young looking and he had more images which were illegal. Mr edwards told him not to send any illegal images and after that, no more images were sent and the pair continued to exchange legal pornographic images. This detailjust coming in. The judge is saying that hugh edwards is not going to be sentenced today and that it not going to be sentenced today and thatitis not going to be sentenced today and that it is appropriate to hear more about him, his motivation and the risk of reoffending and health issues. Thejudge said may be my powers will not be sufficient to sentence you and they are asking the probation service to prepare a report between now and december the 16th. Hugh edwards has been granted conditional bail. Lots more detail, distressing detail coming in about what hugh edwards has pleaded guilty to. Three counts of making indecent images of children, apparently very little reaction afterwards from him. We
Once mighty media figure. As you can see from the size of the media turnout with the scramble of photographers, and one cameraman had his equipment smashed to pieces in the scramble. Huw edwards, it is certainly a full full grace for the man who is now in fact the subject of a major story, rather than reporting it. And he cut a rather strange figure, with his dark sunglasses and blue suit as he strolled away from the court surrounded by media, avoiding taking any questions. But it is obviously a grim day for the bbc, coming only a week or so after the annual report in which they had to talk about how huw edwards s salary and he got a pay rise while he was of sick in the wake of the allegations against him, which she has now embittered. That is a separate case. It is a different case indeed now admitted. It is not linked to the original story the sun carried, but obviously it is a very sensitive issue. And the factors, normally a category a offence in this category, normally results
Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The former bbc presenter huw edwards has pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, one as young as seven to nine years old. He was arrested last november and charged last month, before making the plea this morning at westminster magistrates court. Our senior uk correspondent sima kotecha is there for us now. Sima, what more do we know? afternoon, sally. Huw edwards made himself into courtjust after 9am this morning, he was flanked by several police officers who led him in through the double doors behind me. The court heard he was sent the images in a whatsapp chat with another man. Today, 41 of those images were indecent images, we were told, mainly including children between the ages of 12, at least two of the images in both children aged between seven and nine years old. His lawyer told the court there was no suggestion that he had made any of these images to himself. The judge said he would not sentence
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