The former Labour MP for Falkirk in Scotland and ex shadow minister Eric Joyce has plead guilty to being in possession of child pornography. Mr Joyce was told to expect at least a year in prison at Ipswich crown court yesterday has been warned he could face at least a year in jail after admitting to having child pornography on a computer.
The offence Mr Joyce has admitted to is classed as a Category A offence which is the most serious kind of indecent image, which involve either penetrative sex, sadism or animals. The harrowing 51 second clip involved a number of number of children including a 12-month-old baby with the oldest being only seven years of age.
Mr Joyce who is 59 and a father-of-two told Ipswich Crown court yesterday that he had searched for indecent images of children while he was having issues with alcohol abuse. Mr Joyce also has a string of other offences to his name.
In 2010 he was stripped of his licence for a year and fined £400 after he admitted failing to provide a breath test. In March 2012 he was arrested by police and spent the night in cells after brawling with fellow politicians at the Strangers bar in Westminster. He was fined £3,000 and served with a 12-month community order by Westminster magistrates’ court after he admitted drunkenly assaulting four politicians in the incident. In August of that year Mr Joyce was called back in court for using scissors to remove the electronic tag that had been fitted to his leg as part of a community order. He was fined £600. In October 2014 police charged Mr Joyce with two charges of common assault following an attack on two boys, aged 14 and 15, in a shop in north London. He was found guilty of these charges and sentenced to ten weeks in jail, suspended for two years.
In 2018 he was arrested by police on charges of making child pornography. The charge is unclear when the video was created but it was made between August 2013 and November 2018. Mr Joyce will be sentenced on the 7th of August at Ipswich Crown court.
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