“A married clergyman was ordered to register as a sex offender today after being convicted of repeatedly viewing pornographic images of children on the internet.”
The Independent, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former schoolteacher who used his work laptop to view child pornography was given a three-year community order today.”
The Independent, 30th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A postman from Cornwall who used social-networking websites to abuse hundreds of children has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 24th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A handyman who planted child pornography on his boss’s computer in a bid to get promoted has been jailed.”
BBC News, 23rd September 2010
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“A school IT technician from North Yorkshire has been jailed for two years and eight months after pleading guilty to several child pornography charges.”
BBC News, 14th September 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after admitting making, distributing and possessing indecent photographs of children.”
BBC News, 8th September 2010
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“A former boarding school headteacher convicted of abusing male pupils, both sexually and physically, during the 1970s and 1980s was today imprisoned for 21 years.”
The Guardian, 6th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who superimposed the head of Harry Potter star Emma Watson on to indecent images of children was given a community order today.”
The Independent, 31st August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A law student left fearing reprisals after he was falsely named as a paedophile on Facebook has won a £10,000 libel damages payout at the High Court.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One of the killers of James Bulger has been jailed for two years after admitting downloading and distributing indecent images of children.”
BBC News, 23rd July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Credit and debit card companies should face fines if their products are used to buy child pornography on the internet, an MP says.”
BBC News, 21st July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A transsexual who downloaded child pornography has been spared jail after a judge said that time in prison would be an ‘appalling experience’ for her.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former teaching assistant caught with more than 21,000 indecent images of children was jailed for nearly eight years today.”
The Independent, 5th July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Significant parts of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 took effect during the spring of this year. On 1 February section 59 was brought into force amending the Suicide Act 1961. For the old offence under section 2, there is now substituted a provision that ‘a person (D) commits an offence if (a) D does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the suicide or attempted suicide of another person and (b) D’s act was intended to encourage or assist suicide or an attempt at suicide’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 1st July 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A dangerous paedophile at the centre of an international child sex abuse ring was jailed indefinitely today to protect young boys.”
The Independent, 30th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge today ruled that the public can be told that Jon Venables, one of the killers of two-year-old James Bulger, has been charged with downloading and distributing child pornography.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has received £500 in compensation after wrongly being made to register as a sex offender for taking photographs of his girlfriend’s five-year-old son.”
BBC News, 28th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge branded a man a ‘parent’s worst nightmare’ today as he jailed him for two-and-a-half years for making indecent images of children he met through internet chat sites aimed at teenagers.”
The Independent, 24th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v R (L) [2010] EWCA Crim 924; [2010] WLR (D) 126
“Where a defendant was charged with offences relating to indecent images of children, arrangements to provide his lawyers with copies of those images for the sole purpose of discharging their professional responsibilities to the defendant, and the acceptance by them of access to the material for that purpose, could not in any circumstances be regarded as criminal. Where the Crown had possession of such material it had to propose satisfactory arrangements to enable the defendant to have confidential, private discussions of the material with his lawyers, unsupervised and unobserved by police officers or Crown representatives.”
WLR Daily, 18th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A prosecution for possession of indecent images of a child has been stayed as an abuse of process after the Crown Prosecution Service refused to make copies of the images for the defence, claiming that to do so would lead CPS staff to commit an offence.”
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Law Society’s Gazette, 20th May 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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