Former BBC newsreader admitted offences involving photographs of children as young as seven
has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence, completing an extraordinary fall from grace, after admitting accessing indecent photographs of children as young as seven., looked pale and tired in the dock at Westminster magistrates court as the chief magistrate, Paul Goldspring, handed down the sentence.
As he handed down the sentence, the chief magistrate said he had accepted evidence that Edwards had no recollection of viewing the indecent images owing to his mental health issues at the time of the offences. This had been “compounded by a sense of being inferior by not getting into Oxford and going to Cardiff instead, and being therefore something of an outsider at the BBC”, it was said.
Edwards had been involved in an online chat with Williams, then 19, on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021, during which he sent the younger man hundreds of pounds “apparently off the back of sending pornographic images to Mr Edwards”. “Alex Williams has stated that the money was more generally to support him at university and amounted to around £1,000 to £1,500.”
“On 19 February 2021, Alex Williams asked: ‘Is the stuff I’m sending too young for you?’ The next response from Mr Edwards is dated 22 February 2021 saying: ‘Don’t send underage.’”
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