“A UK broadcaster has been fined £20,000 for showing sexually explicit content on a free-to-air television channel. Satellite Entertainment Ltd (SEL) breached regulator Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th August 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A paedophile who acted as a ‘librarian’ for a global internet child abuse ring was handed an indefinite jail term yesterday after one of the biggest undercover police investigations into online child abuse.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Drawings and computer-generated images of child sex abuse would be made illegal under proposals announced by Justice Minister Maria Eagle.”
BBC News, 28th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who helped set up a Government database of violent sex offenders has been jailed on child pornography charges.”
BBC News, 16th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother whose daughter was murdered by a man addicted to violent internet porn has won her bid to have it outlawed with the introduction of a new law.”
BBC News, 8th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The camel that is the UK Government’s answer to what it terms ‘extreme porn’ lumbers onward. Although, by the time it escaped the Lords last week it really was beginning to look like a particularly moth-eaten dromedary.”
The Register, 5th May 2008
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
“A children’s hospital doctor has escaped a jail sentence after admitting downloading child pornography.”
BBC News, 25th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A retired Metropolitan Police officer has been sentenced to three years in prison for distributing 1,863 indecent images of children on the internet.”
BBC News, 6th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man convicted of child pornography offences can be named, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
BBC News, 1st February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“MBS’s disruptive popup billing software continues to cause angst, says Michael Pollitt. But is the Leeds-based company finally taking on board some of the concerns?”
The Guardian, 24th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal, Criminal Division
“A judge should not have imposed a sentence of imprisonment for public protection on an offender who downloaded indecent photographs of children on to his computer where a small, uncertain and indirect contribution to harm might be made by a repeat of his offence.”
The Times, 14th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“The wife of actor Chris Langham says her husband paid ‘a monumental price’ for downloading footage of child abuse.”
BBC News, 6th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Chris Langham will walk free from prison later today after the Court of Appeal cut his sentence for downloading the most extreme kind of child pornography.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Northumbria Crown Prosecution Service has advised Northumbria Police that a photograph seized from an exhibition at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, is not an indecent image.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 26th October 2007
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A five-judge panel in the Court of Appeal is to be asked to decide whether a man who admitted 20 charges of making and possessing indecent pictures of children should have his identity protected because his two daughters might be harassed or bullied at school.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A collection of photos at the centre of a police child porn investigation has been removed from the show.”
BBC News, 2nd October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A photograph by a controversial American artist which is part of Sir Elton John’s private collection has been seized by police from a gallery on suspicion it may have breached child pornography laws.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th September 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police have seized an exhibit at the Baltic modern art gallery on Tyneside on the grounds it may have breached child pornography laws.”
BBC News, 24th September 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The actor Chris Langham broke down in tears yesterday as he was sentenced to 10 months in prison for downloading child pornography.”
The Independent, 15th September 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A British teenage photographer is suing an American film company after it used a self-portrait she took when she was 14 on the cover of a pornographic DVD.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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