Several British newspapers are covering Huw Edwards, the former BBC presenter who was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting to charges of making indecent images of children. While Edwards has been spared jail time, he will be on the sex offenders’ register for seven years. The i newspaper quotes chief magistrate Paul Goldspring, who said that Edwards’s “long-earned reputation is in tatters” during sentencing. The Daily Express reports that Edwards issued a grovelling apology to his family and to victims of child abuse as part of his court case. Presenter Vanessa Feltz offers her support to Dame Esther Rantzen, who is terminally ill with lung cancer and is spearheading a campaign for an assisted dying law.
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph leads on Keir Starmer’s defence of accepting gifts, including clothes and alterations for his wife Victoria, from a millionaire Labour donor who was later given a pass to access No 10. Downing Street has said that the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner will not investigate the matter. The Guardian leads with the second apparent assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. The Mirror splashes Edwards’s custody shot on its front page with the headline “appalling”. It quotes the BBC, which said he had betrayed audiences who put their trust in him.
The Daily Mail’s headlines centre on Edwards, who told a paedophile that a folder of child abuse images was “amazing”. The paper’s picture of Lady Starmer shows her “in another outfit she hasn’t paid for” while attending London Fashion Week. Parliament’s standards watchdog has said that it will not investigate whether Keir Starmer broke rules by not declaring clothes gifted to his wife by donor Lord Waheed Alli. Finally, the Financial Times reports on Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni laughing together in Rome, with Meloni saying that Starmer was taking “great interest” in Italy’s plan to process asylum claims in Albania
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