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. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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