Huw Edwards Sentenced
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the sentencing of former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards.
He’s avoided prison, but has been given a suspended six-month prison sentence for child abuse image offences at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Adam is joined by the BBC’s legal correspondent Dominic Casciani, and media editor Katie Razzall.
Support services can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline/
Plus, there are questions about security around former President Donald Trump, after an apparent second attempt in two months on his life.
BBC chief presenter Caitríona Perry joins Adam to go through the details.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, we've got two stories for you today on this episode of newscast. |
| 0:08.2 | The second is going to be the latest on that |
| 0:15.0 | the apparent second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, |
| 0:16.0 | but first of all we're going to be talking about the sentence handed down |
| 0:20.0 | to the former BBC news reader Hugh Edwards |
| 0:22.0 | for making indecent images of children and as you can |
| 0:25.9 | imagine that conversation we won't talk about the actual images but we will talk around |
| 0:30.4 | them just to warn you so that's coming up on this episode of |
| 0:33.2 | newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes. You have a bright future |
| 0:38.8 | behind you. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree. We're effectively run in this country |
| 0:43.6 | by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
| 0:45.3 | You don't understand the essence of breath? |
| 0:46.9 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:49.2 | It's just getting silly now. |
| 0:50.7 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 0:52.3 | Let's go have a tour. Blimey. |
| 0:54.7 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and shortly we will cross over to our |
| 0:59.6 | colleagues in the United States to hear about the latest with Donald Trump. But first of all, the former |
| 1:06.1 | BBC newsreader Hugh Edwards has received a six month suspended sentence for making, that's the technical word in the law, |
| 1:14.8 | indecent images of children involving two images of a child below the age of nine. He was appearing at Westminster Magistrate's |
| 1:25.4 | court today after pleading guilty a few weeks ago and so this is a big |
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