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Ex-BA pilot Bartle Frere guilty of possessing indecent DVDs of boys Ex-BA pilot Bartle Frere guilty of arranging sexual abuse of a child in India
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A former British Airways pilot from Dorset has been found guilty of possessing indecent images of boys. A former British Airways pilot has been convicted of arranging the sexual abuse of a child in India.
Bartle Frere was convicted by a unanimous jury decision on six counts, which relate to DVDs of naked Ukranian boys found by police at his home. Bartle Frere, 50, from Dorset, was found guilty of two counts of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
The jury has been told it can reach a majority verdict on another other 19 counts. Bournemouth Crown Court heard he lavished a boy in India with gifts.
Those charges include sexual activity with a child and two charges of serious sexual offences with another boy. He was convicted on six counts of possessing indecent photographs, which related to DVDs of naked Ukrainian boys found at his home.
The former pilot was arrested after returning from Bangkok in November last year. The jury failed to reach a verdict on 17 other charges. The Crown has 14 days to pursue a retrial.
He pleaded not guilty to all 25 charges. The offences he was convicted of related to messages sent over Facebook to a boy in India for whom he bought phones and clothes.
Frere is also accused of five offences of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, five counts of indecent assault, one count of indecency with a child and two charges of serious sexual offences. He arranged to meet him in his hotel for "baths and cuddles".
He is also charged with one count of sexual activity with a child and one charge of attempting to record a person doing a private act. Frere, of Shipton Gorge, who no longer works for British Airways, had pleaded not guilty to all 25 charges during a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.
The jury must also decide on four charges of making indecent photographs of a child. Those charges on which the jury could not reach a verdict included sexual activity with a child, indecent assault, indecency with a child and attempting to record a person doing a private act.
The panel of eight women and three men were discharged by Judge Peter Johnson.
The judge said: "The Crown is likely to seek a re-trial in respect of the outstanding counts and I give them 14 days."
He renewed Frere's conditional bail and said he would be placed on the sex offenders register in the interim.