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Monday evening news briefing: Huw Edwards avoids jail over child abuse images
Good evening. Huw Edwards has avoided an immediate jail sentence after he admitted accessing indecent images of children.
Elsewhere in today’s newsletter, Donald Trump has blamed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s “rhetoric” for the apparent assassination attempt on him, and we reveal the shocking story of Britain’s prison breakdown.
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Huw Edwards avoids jail over child abuse images
Paul Goldspring, the chief magistrate, told Edwards his “long-earned reputation” was “in tatters” as he sentenced the former BBC newsreader to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years, at Westminster magistrates’ court. Here are today’s key moments.