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Speaking of Pete...
This is a rehash of the Evening Standard article, but it's dated Sunday.
Sounds pretty good, eh?
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewNote3.cfm?REF=173
Pete Townshend may be alright
Who frontman to be 'given a caution' on child porn charges, may not have
been implicated in actual malfeasance
Dateline: Sunday, April 20, 2003
Evening Standard, March 10
Rock star Pete Townshend will not be prosecuted for possessing child
pornography, it was reported today.
The Who guitarist, 57, is expected to get a formal police caution, after
insisting he accessed a child porn website as part of a research project
into the horrors of the paedophile trade.
Sources say the decision came after detailed examinations of computers
seized during a raid at his Richmond home.
Insiders say it now appears "highly unlikely" he will face a court
appearance. Townshend's credit-card details had appeared among 7,272 names
handed to police by the US Postal Inspection Service.
The charges he had faced - of possessing, making and incitement to
distribute indecent images of children - could have led to up to five years
in jail.
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