CHRIS LANGHAM BEHIND BARS AND PUT ON THE SEX OFFENDERS REGISTER FOR DOWNLOADING CHILD PORN.
Actor Chris Langham is behind bars today as he awaits sentencing for downloading child porn.The 58-year-old star claimed he was researching a paedophile character for a television drama and said he was trying to make sense of the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.
The jury at Maidstone Crown Court rejected his story yesterday.
Judge Philip Statman said he had viewed such serious indecent images of children that the custody threshold had been "well and truly passed." The father of five - whose three sons from his first marriage were in court - was convicted of 15 counts of making an indecent photograph of a child between September and November 2005, after a three-week trial.
He was also accused of having sex with an underage girl in upmarket hotels, his West End dressing room, his car and even at his home.
But the jury cleared him of six counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery between January 1996 and April 2000.
Outside court his solicitor, Angus McBride, read a statement on his behalf: "I'm absolutely delighted my name has been cleared of all the charges I have consistently denied.
I have been found guilty of charges I made admissions to from the moment of my first arrest." The judge adjourned sentencing until September 14.
He ordered Langham to sign the sex offenders' register.
