Hi all,
This has made the media in Oz, actually it was being discussed on commercial radio this week and what the ramifications may be for the BBC. The presenters were comparing it to this case below, only in the sense that he worked for the public broadcaster.
Former ABC personality Andy Muirhead has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for child *advertiser censored* offences.
Muirhead, 36, has been in custody since July when he pleaded guilty to accessing and possessing 12,000 child *advertiser censored* images and 24 videos showing children aged between three and 14.
Two years ago police seized the computer from the Hobart home of the former Collectors host after a tip-off from Interpol.
At least 60 images showed explicit or sadistic treatment of children.
Andy Muirhead often did the unexpected.
Few schoolmates in Hobart picked the thin, reserved boy as a future stand-up comedian, let alone a TV personality.
At the same time as he made a name in Collectors and on breakfast radio, Muirhead puzzled ABC colleagues. Bubbly on the mike, he was contained and withdrawn off air.
But the biggest surprise was in store for his family, and "the hundreds of thousands of people who trusted me and and invited me into their homes each Friday night". In his own home, Muirhead was watching child *advertiser censored* in the upstairs bedroom.
Tasmanian chief justice Justice Ewan Crawford sentenced Muirhead to 10 months imprisonment, to be released after seven months, on three child *advertiser censored* charges.
http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/369900/the-hidden-muirhead/?cs=12
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-01/jail-sentence-for-muirhead/4290134