Was a Suspended Sentence for Huw Edwards Appropriate?

Radio 5 Live asked me to comment on the type of sentence Huw Edwards was likely to receive as the sentencing hearing at Westminster Magistrates drew near. I turned the invitation down because I am not a criminal lawyer, but was prepared to comment on the result from the standpoint of the victim/survivor of abuse
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Is anonymity of the victim right and anonymity of the accused wrong?

The recent story about the high-profile BBC Presenter (when I started writing this blog we did not know his identity) who has allegedly paid thousands of pounds to a former minor when he was 17 for sexually explicit photographs, has filled the media with intrigue. Why? Principally because no one in the BBC or media
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