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Would his so called mental breakdown cause him to develop this interest in child images or was it always lurking in the background

When is the next hearing?

A question for psychiatrists I’d imagine, but as a lay person I’d be guessing a latent at least interest always there, then maybe got more reckless as capacity to control his desires reduced .
Which points towards a bigger question around what is the genetic make up of such a person? What bits of the brain or neurons or synapses or what not stop most people from such behaviour and interest but not all .

In fairness, those are two different things. Huw Edwards was investigated and no charges brought regarding the images and discussions with the younger guy, which were made public by The Sun. Owen Jones' comment is regarding that issue.

Subsequently, Edwards was investigated regarding these other images and has now pled guilty to these other crimes (likely because maybe evidence was uncovered about these as part of the first investigation).

The Sun had no idea about these items when publishing their story about the first case. Likewise, Owen Jones couldn't have known anything about these subsequent images & messages found.

I mean, this is such a weird thing to throw into this thread. Huw Edwards pleading guilty to possessing child abuse images and videos, and straight away you run to Owen Jones not knowing about it a year ago.

I am very interested in neuroscience, interested in learning about it and progress is being made in this area. I have Multiple Sclerosis myself, donating my brain to research. The more brains they get from voluntary doners with various issues the more quickly will such science evolve, and indeed could eventually lead to effective interventions.

If the Sun knew, it puts them in a worse light, as they had knowledge of such activities and didn't bring it to the police.

No suggestion in anything The Sun reported they knew about this, or that this is as a result of information shared by them with the police. They were going after Edwards for the original scandal, which was sleazy and inappropriate but did not appear to be criminal.

The Sun's accusations were based on an account given by the guy's parents, and when investigated by the police no evidence of criminality for that case was found. The Sun also backtracked on their own claims that anything illegal occurred between them, and agreed not to post further stories about it pending new developments. That's what Owen Jones based his tweet on.

Evidence was later found (or identified during their investigation about the first case but not related to the first case otherwise the police wouldn't have said there was no evidence of criminality) regarding Edwards' messages with others, and images/videos unrelated to the first case.

Even at the time, I think I myself said that if the guy in the first case was over the age of consent, then as scummy as it was, it was an awful situation for Edwards. Guess what? I now completely take that back because new information has changed that. Like I said now, I hope he rots in jail.

Your "gotcha" of Jones is based on a tweet from over a year ago based on the evidence that was public at the time, where no evidence of criminality was found, investigation into Edwards (for this case) dropped, The Sun being lambasted by many for being reckless in their reporting on it in breaking the story, and Edwards having a mental breakdown. Unless Owen Jones now tweets that he still supports Edwards given that these chanrges and his guilty plea are now public, you're "gotcha" is completely redundant and distracting from discussion of a guy who literally possessed child abuse material.

Yes, remember based only on what The Sun \ family had given to the police, multiple police forces did not see any criminality.

Two police forces have said they are not pursuing action against Huw Edwards over claims he paid a teenager for explicit pictures. The Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police looked at allegations against the BBC presenter and both said there was no information to indicate criminal offences had been committed.

https://news.sky.com/story/no-criminal-offence-in-allegations-against-bbc-presenter-says-met-police-12919368

I don't suppose it would cause an interest in children. Some brain injuries have caused big changes including interest in children that didn't seem to exist before the injury.

Not sure why you'd call it a "so called" mental breakdown if you also think it was real enough to have an effect on his sexual orientation

Reporting on a guy that was in possession the most extreme child sex abuse images.. Weird alright.

Ah, I don't pretend to know his medical history. Are you pretending to know his medical history?

Was his mental ill-health explicitly used as a reason for his behaviour?

Daily Mail have added his photo to the rest of the BBC pedo board of shame alongside Harris Saville Hall etc

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13692803/bbc-pedophiles-jimmy-savile-huw-edwards-stuart-hall-vile-abuse-children.html

Considering there was nothing public until a few days ago that indicated that, it would have been extremely strange for her to say that and effectively bypass the legal procedures.

That is if it has anything to do with it at all, of course, but its not likely to be a useful legal defence anyway.