{"id":1219166,"date":"2022-01-16T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219166"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:19:49","slug":"bbc-producer-spared-jail-after-being-caught-with-child-sex-abuse-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bbc-producer-spared-jail-after-being-caught-with-child-sex-abuse-images\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Producer Spared Jail After Being Caught with Child Sex Abuse Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbbc-producer-spared-jail-after-being-caught-with-child-sex-abuse-images%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-2184339-e1642249159853-640x335.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A retired BBC producer has been given a 20 month suspended sentence for possessing 832 indecent images of children.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Melleney, 76, who when raided and arrested by the police in 2018 was found to be in possession of 832 child abuse images and illegal weapons, has been handed a lenient 22-month suspended sentence by&nbsp;Kingston Crown Court, receiving 20 months for the child sex abuse images and 2 months for owning three tasers and a CS gas spray.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The 22-month sentence was suspended because Judge Simon Bryan QC believed prison would be&nbsp;\u201cparticularly challenging\u201d for Melleney due to his poor health, including a recent heart attack, and the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Bryan also said that a factor in the decision to suspend the sentence was because it would only have been a \u201crelatively short custodial term\u201d, the&nbsp;<em>Daily Mail&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10402929\/Retired-BBC-director-76-832-child-abuse-images-gasps-shock-avoids-jail.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The retired BBC producer \u2013 who previously worked on top BBC shows such as investigative journalism series <em>Panorama<\/em> and political debating programme <em>Question Time<\/em> \u2013 was also placed on the sex offenders register for ten years. In response to Melleney claiming to have a \u201clegal pornography addiction\u201d, the court also required 40 days of rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The 30-year BBC veteran claimed that he had downloaded the child abuse images in error and was not aware of their existence. Yet in \u201cdamning evidence\u201d pointing to the contrary, the court was told that 612 of the 832 child abuse images were on a hard drive in the dressing gown Melleney was wearing at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution at the trial also revealed that police had found the terms \u201c11yo PTHC\u201d, \u201cPTHC\u201d and \u201cpre-teen\u201d in the search history of Melleney\u2019s devices. PTHC, an acronym for \u2018pre-teen hardcore\u2019, is a term widely used by paedophiles on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The jury only found Melleney guilty of one of the four counts he faced trial over, that being<em>&nbsp;<\/em>possessing indecent photographs of children. The jury decided that Melleney&nbsp;was not guilty of&nbsp;three other charges, including making indecent photographs of children, possessing an extreme pornographic image and possessing a prohibited image.<\/p>\n<p>Before Melleney was sentenced, his defence lawyer, Kieran Vaughan QC highlighted the jury\u2019s decision to only find his client guilty of the \u201cless serious offence\u201d, his poor medical health, and his 30 years working with an \u201cunblemished record with the BBC\u201d to push for a lesser sentence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From Jimmy Savile To The Rotherham Rape Gangs: Lessons Won&#8217;t Be Learned <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/weD4CgvLXk\">https:\/\/t.co\/weD4CgvLXk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j0yGusc2Zu\">pic.twitter.com\/j0yGusc2Zu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/703264529338073088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Melleney, who retired from the BBC in 1996\/1997 would have worked for the BBC at the same time as notorious paedophile and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2014\/11\/07\/former-bbc-presenter-savile-abuse-inquiry-widens\/\">necrophiliac<\/a> Jimmy Savile. However, it is unclear whether they knew each other or had any interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Savile was one of the BBC\u2019s prominent stars hosting&nbsp;BBC hit show <em>Top of the Pops<\/em>&nbsp;and children\u2019s programme <em>Jim\u2019ll Fix It<\/em>. The exact number of Savile\u2019s victims, who were mainly children, is unknown, but it is believed to be in the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/02\/25\/report-bbc-guilty-of-serious-failings-over-sex-offender-jimmy-savile\/\">hundreds<\/a>\u201d \u2013 with his abuse spanning across six decades until his death in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at the BBC were said to be aware of Savile\u2019s behaviour, yet chose to turn a blind eye to the shocking abuse, and allegedly did not report it to senior management.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hammer-Wielding Man Smashes BBC Headquarters Statue by Known Sex Abuser Artist <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GlTryW3djh\">https:\/\/t.co\/GlTryW3djh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1481347364023672838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The BBC was embroiled in another paedophile related scandal this week when a man attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/12\/hammer-wielding-man-smashes-bbc-headquarters-statue-by-known-sex-abuser-artist\/\">smash<\/a> a statue created by Eric Gill \u2014 a paedophile who is accused of raping his daughter, sister and family dog \u2014 on the front of the BBC London Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The statue called&nbsp;<em>Prospero and Ariel<\/em> depicted a male figure holding a naked boy\u2019s arms with the child\u2019s genitals on full display. When attempting to destroy the statue, the man chipped off bits of the statue with a hammer, including the child\u2019s exposed genitals.<\/p>\n<p>The man was&nbsp;arrested on suspicion of criminal damage by the Metropolitan Police after he climbed down from the BBC building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired BBC producer has been given a 20 month suspended sentence for possessing 832 indecent images of children. 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