2019-07-30
Man who sent schoolboy drunken sexual messages avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Eddie Smith (45) to 16 months imprisonment, suspended in its entirety for 18 months. In passing sentence, the judge took into account the mitigating circumstances of the case, including the guilty plea entered by Smith, an action which had "given emotional comfort to the victim and saved him the trauma of giving evidence".