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EXCLUSIVE 
 
Pete: Email clears me 
By DOMINIC MOHAN

ROCKER Pete Townshend last night said he had email
proof he DID contact internet watchdogs to complain
about paedophile websites. 


The Internet Watch Foundation initially denied they
had been in contact with the under-fire Who guitarist
 quizzed by cops on child porn allegations.

But they have now admitted to his lawyers that he DID
email them three times last year. Townshend says he
even got a reply.

And sources close to Townshend said this was the first
step to the guitar legend clearing his name.

Pete, 57, said: You may recall that a couple of weeks
ago, representatives of the Internet Watch Foundation
told the press and news stations they had never heard
from me.

I, of course, know I did communicate with them
several times last year and they have now supplied to
us copies of my emails to them  one in August, the
rest November. 

My lawyers have written to the IWF founder Mark
Stephens, who was adamant they had never heard from
me, asking for an explanation.

Police raided Townshends home in Chiswick, South West
London, and took computers this month.

But it is believed officers have found no evidence he
looked at child filth  other than on the occasions he
admitted viewing sites to research a book and campaign
against porn.

One source close to Townshend said last night: We
think this shows Petes name will be cleared.

He insists hes told the truth all along and his
intentions were good, if not a little naive. This
proves that.

It is embarrassing for the IWF. They said they knew
nothing about him  but now he has the proof.

Mark Stephens attacked Townshend at the time of the
police raid, saying: It is wrong-headed, misguided
and illegal to look at or download paedophiliac
material. If you do, youre likely to go to jail.

IWF chief executive Peter Robbins refused to comment
last night. 


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-Brian in Atlanta
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