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Possibility that magistrates sends the case to the Crown Court if he feels he does not have sufficient sentencing powers. A reminder of the case. Huw edwards were sent hundreds of explicit images over a 16 month period, 41 of them involved children, seven were deemed to be of an extremely serious sexual nature and two of those images involved a child between the ages of seven and nine. Injuly, when he made and nine. Injuly, when he made an appearance here, when he pleaded guilty, his barrister spoke to the court saying that mr edwards did not keep any images, did not send any to anyone else and did not and has not sought to similar images from anywhere else. The prosecution asked the magistrate to consider a suspended sentence but a Prison Sentence as possible. But the ....
Has also exited to court with his legal team and we are told that the magistrate should be backin that the magistrate should be back in the court at around 12 30pm with his decision. Over the last 20 minutes or so we heard the defence say that Mr Edwards switches to apologise, he wishes to coach a know how profoundly sorry he is. He says he recognises the repugnant nature of such images aren t a heart that is done to those who appear in such images. For his part in that he apologise sincerely and makes it clear he has the utmost regret. This is significant because it puts forward her remarks how remorseful Mr Edwards is for his crimes. As barrister is using that as a mitigating factor. We have 30 has mental and physical health problems. We have been hurt that he has been struggling for the last few years. Mr edwards s mental Health Battle has been in the Public Domain. He has ....