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The former BBC News presenter Huw Edwards has avoided jail after accessing indecent images of children as young as seven. On Monday the broadcaster, 63, was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. He avoided jail due to mitigation and an early guilty plea. At his sentencing it emerged Edwards replied “yes xxx” when asked on a WhatsApp chat if he wanted sexual images of a person whose “age could be discerned as being between 14 and 16”. Edwards also paid up to £1,500 to a convicted paedophile who sent him 41 child abuse images. Seven were of category A, the most serious classification. Most of the children in the images were between 13 and 15 while one was aged between seven and nine. Two other BBC stars face separate scandals: The Repair Shop host Jay Blades was charged with alleged domestic abuse offences on Friday, while Match of the Day’s Jermaine Jenas was recently sacked over allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
