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Peter Wilby admitted having a sexual interest in children and accessing illegal images online since the 1990s.
IN August Peter Wilby, the former Independent on Sunday and New Statesman editor and media columnist for the Guardian between 2005 and 2009, was given a 10-month suspended prison sentence for child pornography offences.
To the shock of former colleagues, who had
not realised his declining of freelance
commissions since October last year was
because he had been arrested
and was awaiting trial, it
emerged in court that Wilby
had admitted having a sexual
interest in children and
accessing illegal images online
since the 1990s...
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