"His barrister Richard Bennett said: “These are not what would be termed as paedophilic images. These are cartoons.”

And Mr Bennett revealed that such banned images were freely available on legitimate sites."

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"He said Hoque helped many people in the Middlesbrough community and many spoke very highly of him."

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[Judge says] “You are an intelligent man. You certainly should have been aware of the risk of indulging in accessing this material, and you acknowledge your foolishness and guilt.”

So... well-respected man has lolicon on his computer, and is now being locked up. His attorney points out that these images were available on "legitimate" websites (for whatever that means.)




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