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| Ex-PM aide Patrick Rock given conditional discharge over child images | |
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| A former aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, Patrick Rock, has been given a two-year conditional discharge over indecent images of children. | A former aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, Patrick Rock, has been given a two-year conditional discharge over indecent images of children. |
| The ex-deputy director of policy at Downing Street was convicted on Wednesday of five charges and acquitted of three similar counts. | The ex-deputy director of policy at Downing Street was convicted on Wednesday of five charges and acquitted of three similar counts. |
| The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the remaining 12 charges. | The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the remaining 12 charges. |
| Rock, 65, had admitted downloading 20 images of nine young girls in 2013, but denied they were indecent. | |
| Although he will not serve time in prison, Judge Alistair McCreath said Rock's punishment was "the loss of your reputation and your very public humiliation". | |
| "I have not lost sight of the obvious reality that right-thinking people will quite properly consider that those who did what you did should be punished for it. | |
| "You should be. And you have been... It is a punishment which you brought on yourself, but is nonetheless a very real one. And it is one that is utterly merited." | |
| The court heard that the youngest of the girls in the pictures was aged just 10 years and four months when he downloaded the image - meaning she would have been younger when it was taken. |