As Huw Edwards Is Spared Jail, BBC Insiders Prepare To Dish Dirt In Workplace Culture Review
deadline.comAs Huw Edwards stood for his sentencing after pleading guilty to accessing child abuse images, he clasped his hands and projected a neutral expression.
It was a pose millions of BBC viewers will have seen Edwards strike countless times as the seasoned presenter delivered the day’s headlines.
His audience on this occasion, however, was a courtroom. The 63-year-old news anchor was ultimately spared jail after a judge ruled that his guilty plea, remorse, exemplary professional record, and existential mental health struggles were mitigation enough for a suspended sentence.
Some believe Edwards is lucky not to be behind bars after viewing unspeakably indecent images of children as young as seven, but as the judge unsparingly reminded him, his reputation and career prospects are in tatters.
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