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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How have Police Priorities changed on child abuse since 2015?

This is a rehash of a post that I wrote in 2015 about a complaint by three politicians, Boris Johnson, Nigel Lawson, and Edwina Currie, that the police were spending too much money on historic child abuse and not enough to keep the public safe from terrorism. Note carefully which political party they come from.
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Radio, TV, and Press

Over the years, I have given a lot of interviews to the Media on a multitude of topics such as the sentencing of alleged abusers, Mandatory Reporting, Time Delay, The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse etc. etc. Here are a number of media extracts from the past some of
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