A 1 year suspended sentence for having hundreds of CP pics on his phone? That's just ridiculously low.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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Not sure where you got "hundreds" from. It was 40 that were sent to him by someone else. Plus a bunch of other stuff which wasn't of minors (but obviously age isn't the only criteria for legally or morality, so I'm unsure if the rest was "legit").
He got into trouble because they were offered and whilst he initially declined them, he later changed his mind and accepted them (by saying "go on" after being offered again later on), knowing full well what they were.
And that's where he crossed the line.
He had a great job and reputation over decades of work on TV. Then he goes and does that and destroys everything. Not his smartest move, for sure.
1 is too many..
True, but that's not the point. It'd clearly be unrealistic to equate the crime to things like rape or murder.
The man's obviously sick in the head but at least didn't attack a child irl.
Just plutocracies, doing plutocratic things, because they're plutocracies.
The sentence was a custodial jail sentence. There were just two mitigating factors that downgraded it to a suspended one by a whisker: 1. early guilty plea (in the UK this reduces sentence by a third) and 2. first offense. Typically a first offense under two years would be suspended for anyone.
Six months!
BBC protecting the nonce since 1963
Rich peados getting away with it as usual. The judge and the bbc should be ashamed of themselves..
People who experience shame don't act that way.
That's why he said they should be
It's pretty standard to have a first offense under 2 years suspended
I knew him for that funny technical difficulties scene. I had no idea he did THAT.
I hate him now.