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HULL EX-POLICE CHIEF 'TO ADMIT CHILD PORN OFFENCES'

By John Hirst

HULL EX-POLICE CHIEF 'TO ADMIT CHILD PORN OFFENCES'

A former Humberside Police chief is set to admit possessing child pornography.

Ex-humberside Police Chief Superintendent Alec Edward Alexander, is charged with seven counts of possessing indecent photographs of children.

Each separate count relates to multiple images, including some graded as the most serious.

Alexander, 61, who used to be in charge of policing in east Hull and Holderness villages, spoke only to confirm his name at a brief court hearing.

But his barrister David Gordon said his client was "almost certainly" going to admit possessing child pornography.

He said: "Almost certainly, there will be guilty pleas regards to the images, if not all of them then, the vast majority of them.

"I would like to put on record that he would be very unlikely indeed to be contending the indecent images."

Prosecutor Simon Waley told Hull Crown Court many of the images found in Mr Alexander's possession were at the top end of the indecency scale.

The case was adjourned until April 28 for a plea and case management hearing, where the charges will be formally put to Alexander and he will be able to enter guilty or not-guilty pleas.

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Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).