According to the Crown Prosecution Service, making indecent images can have a wide definition in the law and can include receiving them via social media.
Edwards’s barrister Philip Evans KC told the court: “There’s no suggestion in this case that Mr Edwards has… in the traditional sense of the word, created any image of any sort.”
Could malicious parties use this to get anyone they choose into trouble by sending them images?
Only if they didn’t report such a message/activity and fully cooperate.
My understanding is that if you are party to things like this and don’t take the required action then you are liable to this wider definition of making.
So you are essentially complicit in the making of them because you didn’t try and stop/report it in a timely manner.
Happens with loads of other stuff like murders, terror, theft etc… Basically if you know about serious crimes and don’t take any action. Then you can be found guilty of a very similar offence as the people who committed the exact offence.
Yes, I think so.
Only if they didn’t report such a message/activity and fully cooperate.
My understanding is that if you are party to things like this and don’t take the required action then you are liable to this wider definition of making.
So you are essentially complicit in the making of them because you didn’t try and stop/report it in a timely manner.
Happens with loads of other stuff like murders, terror, theft etc… Basically if you know about serious crimes and don’t take any action. Then you can be found guilty of a very similar offence as the people who committed the exact offence.