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Couldn't find a "facing X years" comment in any of the articles (this is common in the US, do they not do this in the UK when covering convictions/guilty pleas?), so I looked at the sentencing guidelines. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm especially not proficient on UK law, but if I read it correctly, he's facing up to 3 years per count, and his guilty plea will count towards a sentence reduction.Maybe 20.0 will release if he makes it out of prison alive. No idea how they get treated in jail overseas.
Whether he gets consecutive or concurrent sentencing is another matter entirely. Also not sure if they do that in the UK, or if it's always one or the other.
I also have no idea how people convicted of such things fare in UK prisons. I know in the US they tend to fare poorly.
At a bare minimum, the game is done for the next 1-3 years, though I think some folks on the Discord were discussing picking up the torch and carrying it forward. Though I think for some, the game's too tainted now to come back to.