Rules for reviewing “unduly lenient” sentences should be expanded to cover more crimes, London’s victims’ commissioner has said in the wake of Huw Edwards’ suspended sentence. The former BBC newsreader received a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, on Monday after he admitted possessing indecent images of children. The fact he was not sent to prison immediately has drawn criticism from some quarters but there is no way to change his sentence. Isabel Oakeshott argues that disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards' trial for child abuse image offences “should not have been held in a Magistrates Court“. “That pathetic lack of a sentence was absolutely disgraceful!“ Click here for more from Talk If you need any help visit: #huwedwards #bbc #sentence
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