FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Former prominent BBC news anchor gets suspended sentence for indecent images of children on phoneEnglish
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3 days agoIt’s pretty standard to have a first offense under 2 years suspended
It’s pretty standard to have a first offense under 2 years suspended
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.