TUESDAY AUGUST 21 2001
Ex-MI6 agent put porn on police computer
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001290847,00.html
BY JOANNA BALE
A FORMER MI6 agent is facing prison after he admitted yesterday downloading
pornographic images of children on to his office computer while working at a
police headquarters.
Alan Coates, 53, a Cleveland police communications manager, was found with
hundreds of explicit pictures of young girls and boys.
Coates, who is married, had earlier stood trial at Newcastle Crown Court on
15 specimen charges of making indecent photographs of children. The jury
failed to reach a verdict and a fresh trial was fixed for November. But
after protesting his innocence for more than three years, Coates pleaded
guilty yesterday to three charges from the original indictment.
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