Pete Townshend Sued Keir Starmer In Child Pornography Case

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JAKARTA - Pete Townshend of The Who revealed that Keir Starmer was a lawyer who challenged him in the child pornography case that had ensnared him.

In 2003, Townshend paid to look at child pornography sites, which sparked police investigations. The Who star claims that it was research for a campaign against pedophilia to make a memoir, in which Townshend believes he may have experienced sexual harassment as a child: You should know what's out there.

Shortly before his memoir was published in 2012, Townshend outlined the incident. He claimed to have paid 7 pounds to access child pornography sites, which he immediately canceled, to uncover the financial chain of child abuse from Russian orphanages.

Townshend acknowledged his actions crazy, and said it was a result of white knight syndrome, an attempt to be seen as a helping party. He also revealed that he had been warned and included in the list of sex offenders for five years later.

In a new profile, it was revealed that the current Opposition Leader Keir Starmer is a lawyer who challenged Townshend in court. "You know, I made a mistake, but in my opinion I did the right thing," Townshend told The Independent.

"I was challenged by Keir Starmer, who was then responsible for public prosecution, to go to court to clarify my case or receive a warning."

"I was afraid to go to court. I thought I would be made a boy poster, so I refused. I took careful action. So legally, there is an argument that I am guilty of what I am accused of, namely downloading child pornography, even though I never did.

In fact, I was campaigning and doing research and trying to find a place where I could be useful to show where the virus came from.

Townshend has finally been acquitted of his accusations: The police have accepted unconditionally that this is my motive for seeing this site and for no other malicious purpose, and as a result they decided not to sue me.

The musician also talked about the impact of this case on his life: When I do interviews, there are often comments that refer to them: This person should be imprisoned, he said. It often appears. It's part of my daily life, and it hurts, but I know the truth, my wife knows the truth. He noticed what I did.

He then referred the reader to his 2002 essay 'A Different Bomb', which detailed Townshend's motives for uncovering child pornography networks.