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David Selwood said he had no sexual interest in children
A former circuit judge who pleaded guilty to child pornography charges has been spared a jail sentence.
David Selwood, from Winchester in Hampshire, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of making and possessing indecent images of children.
The 70-year-old was charged after police found 75 images of naked and semi-naked boys aged between eight and 14 on his laptop computer.
A spokesman for the Department of Constitutional Affairs said that Judge Selwood would be entitled to a full pension. The spokesman said that he was due to retire when he reached the age of 70 but was retiring early because of ill health. "The judge is innocent until proved guilty and therefore, like any other person, is entitled to his full pension upon retirement", the spokesman said.
Presumably, his retirement will not effect police investigations in any way, but the question should be asked, would he have decided to retire due to such ill health had he not been arrested and placed under investigation?
Community sentence for former judge who downloaded child porn
Steven Morris
Wednesday July 14, 2004
The Guardian
A former crown court judge, found to have 75 pornographic images of boys on his laptop computer, was yesterday sentenced to a 12-month community rehabilitation order.
David Selwood was told that the courts looked "gravely" on the offences he had committed because they involved "exploitation and abuse of children".
After Selwood, 70, was sentenced, campaigners called for further detailed investigations into cases involving offences against children which he heard as a judge.
Natasha Finlayson, of the charity ChildLine, said: "His authority to make judgments in cases involving offences against children must surely be called into question."
Police investigated Selwood after US officials discovered he had contacted an American pornographic website. On his computer, they found 75 images of naked or partially clothed boys aged between eight and 14.
Selwood resigned from his position as resident judge at Portsmouth crown court, and at an earlier court appearance admitted 12 counts of making indecent photographs and one count of possessing such images.
At Bow Street magistrates court in central London yesterday, Judge Timothy Workman said that the number of images was "not insignificant" and that they had been downloaded on a number of occasions over a period of six weeks.
The judge, accepting that Selwood had an "exemplary record" in the law and in the army, where he had attained the rank of major general, said: "The commission of these offences and the convictions now recorded against him are undoubtedly a personal tragedy to him and his family.
"Nevertheless the courts look gravely on this type of offence because it involves the exploitation and abuse of children, and the court's first concern must be to them."
The judge told Selwood that he would not need to attend a sex offenders' programme since the advice and guidance he needed could come from a probation officer.
However, Selwood's name has been added to the sex offenders' register.
Selwood, of Winchester, who is married with four children and six grandchildren, maintained that he had never had any sexual interest in children but had visited child porn sites out of "curiosity".
Richard Hallam, defending, said: "He has lost his reputation, he has lost his career. The ramifications [of his offences] will go on reverberating probably throughout the rest of his life."
Before Selwood's disgrace, two men he dealt with for offences involving children had their sentences increased on appeal. Since his arrest, however, the Crown Prosecution Service has reviewed his history and found "no obvious pattern of inappropriate sentencing".
Earlier this year Selwood cleared Christopher Bagley, a world authority on child abuse, of having criminal intent when he downloaded child pornography. He described Professor Bagley as "naive" for not seeking legal advice or consulting colleagues before accessing the computer images.
Just 24 hours after judge David Selwood avoided prison, Eton College master Ian McAuslan also avoided jail even though he admitted possessing over 2,000 images of children, 200 of them described as indecent. Magistrates imposed a sentence of only nine months, suspended for two years.
The judge did not even make an order forbidding McAuslan from working with children. It certainly pays to know the right people and confirms yet again that there's one law for them, and another law for the rest of us.

COURT IN THE ACT

Judge ruled on vice cases.. but paid for sex in secret

By Dan Evans, 21/06/2009

A SENIOR married judge had a secret nine-month fling with a £250-a-night RENT BOY, the News of the World can reveal.

Judge Gerald Price QC, 60, was so besotted with 25-year-old Christopher Williams he set him up with a FLAT, paid him a monthly ALLOWANCE and let him sit on the bench in court as he presided over TRIALS.

Williams said: "His business is truth but he's been living a lie."

The judge is under investigation by The Ministry of Justice today after the News of the World discovered he risked his marriage and his career for a passionate affair with the male prostitute.

Judge Price grew so obsessed with the rent boy 35 years his junior that he let him sit next to him in COURT while he jailed criminals.

Price gave 25-year-old Christopher Williams unfettered access to three Crown Courts - an abuse of power that will horrify the authorities. The judge also used his experience to help Williams beat a public order rap - at the same time as paying him a monthly £420 for what he called a sex "season ticket".

Williams even got to see sensitive confidential trial papers and defendants' criminal records.

Now the £129,000-a-year lawyer and father-of-two faces a charge sheet of his own as we detail the affair conducted behind the back of his trusting wife, revealing shocking lapses of judgement in which he:

PAID for gay sex in a hotel despite ruling on VICE cases.
RENTED two flats for Williams as love nests for their secret fling.
EXPOSED himself to the threat of blackmail.
PRETENDED to court officials that Williams was a law student.
TOOK Williams away on official business, staying in hotel rooms.
PROPOSED on one knee to the rent boy, vowing to leave his wife.

Last night in an exclusive interview gay escort Williams said: "What Gerald did was dangerous. His business was truth but he lived a lie. He was at real risk of being blackmailed. Imagine the power a criminal could wield over a judge with info like this."

FOR RENT: Judge found williams on net

Price is a senior circuit judge who has sat for nine years in Swansea, Cardiff and Carmarthen, South Wales, ruling on hundreds of cases.

His conduct is in clear breach of The Guide To Judicial Conduct - the rule book for the judiciary. It states:

"It is necessary for the continuity of the system of law as we know it that there be standards of conduct, both in and out of court. . .

"A judge must accept personal restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen and should do so freely and willingly. In particular, a judge shall conduct himself or herself in a way that is consistent with the dignity of the judicial office."

Judge Price's affair with Williams brings the judiciary into disrepute and is in contravention of the guide's sections covering impartiality, integrity and propriety.

We first informed Price of our investigation nine days ago. He now faces an inquiry by the Ministry of Justice complaints department but so far has not been suspended. Judge Price - who has stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Tory candidate in THREE general elections and has been an Anglican lay preacher since 1969 - first contacted Williams for sex through an escort website last September.

Williams said: "I had a random email from him. I replied and told him my fee was £80. Then we arranged to meet up.

"He picked me up at the train station in his convertible Volvo and we did the deal at the Days Inn hotel in the Sarn Park services on the M4. It was the day before his 60th birthday. He told me I was his birthday present to himself.

"At first he wanted to talk. Then we had sex. I didn't know he was a judge - just a married man who worked in Swansea. It ended with a 'thank you' and he dropped me off at Bridgend station."

Judge Price had called himself "Graham" but made his true identity clear to Williams at a second meeting four days later. This time it was at the judge's second home near Carmarthen, Dyfed. Williams said: "It was an overnight stay so it cost him £250. He always paid cash. His wife Theresa did operatics and those nights she'd stay at the family's main house in Cowbridge.

"The Carmarthen house is absolutely gorgeous, a half-a-mile drive down a dirt track. It's a magnificent big place with outbuildings and an old water mill.

"Things started with general chit chat, getting to know each other, and he admitted he was a judge. He was really worried and begged me not to tell anyone about us.

"We had an Indian which we picked up from Lampeter and drank lots of wine and vodka.

FIRST DATE: Days Inn hotel on M4

"Then we spent the night in the double bed in his adult son's room."

Next day Judge Price took the breathtaking risk of introducing Williams into the heart of his professional life at Carmarthen court. Williams said: "Security tried to stop me following Gerald in but he said, 'Oh no, he's with me' and I was escorted to the judges' chambers. That day I sat in the press gallery. But he was keen for me to get more involved."

Quickly the judge became infatuated with Williams, seeing him almost every day. "He'd come up after work and we'd go to a local pub in Merthyr Tydfil," recalled Williams. "No sex, just drinks.

"It was only sexual when he had a few hours free, once or twice a week." But soon the cost got too much for the judge. Williams said: "That's when he came up with the idea of a 'season ticket'. My response was 'Like a bus pass?' It ended up as a monthly allowance of £420 in cash."

Now the pair were firmly ensconced in each other's lives, the judge set about making Williams a regular face at court.

That was despite being known for ruling on vice cases, including an order to snatch every penny owned by brothel madam Julie Hyett - a policeman's wife - giving her a 15-month suspended jail term.

Williams told us: "I sat on the bench next to Gerald for at least five days in Cardiff, three in Swansea, and once in Carmarthen. Security knew who I was and I was never stopped or hindered. Gerald passed me off as a law student.

"I was also in his private chambers behind the courtroom. That's where I caught sight of a lot of court files and criminal records - stuff only the judge and counsel should see."

WRIT BY JUDGE: With kiss on bottom

Price was well aware of the risks he was taking by flaunting his lover so brazenly in court. Williams said: "We were having a drink with a gay barrister friend in February and he told Gerald that having me sat on the bench was a lapse in judgement and very unprofessional. He warned that serious questions could be asked."

In December the judge used his position to secure an apartment for trysts while he sat in Cardiff. "We used the title His Honour Judge Gerald Price just to help get the flat," said Williams. "A landlord is a lot more trusting then."

The judge was now regularly using the cover of official business to be with his young lover. Williams said: "He was on a sexual offences seminar at Warwick University in November and I went with him. We stayed at the Glebe Hotel for three nights and had sex every night.

"The next trip was to London in December. He was on the recruitment panel for the Ministry of Justice finding new judges.

"We stayed mainly at the Citadines Hotel on Northumberland Avenue near Trafalgar Square. He told me he'd claim the cost from the ministry. We travelled up on a Sunday evening and came back on a Friday afternoon. In the evenings we went to the theatre with seats booked in his name."

It was while returning from a London visit that Williams ran into trouble with British Transport Police, charged with a public order offence for being drunk on the train.

"The case was due to be heard at Cardiff but Gerald helped me get it sidelined," said Williams.

"He went through my statements and charge sheet marking important areas that could help my case. Then he photocopied passages from Stone's Justice Manual which showed the arguments I could use in defence. I was able to keep picking out points of law until it just disappeared."

Williams was eventually bound over to keep the peace for six months. Soon the judge abandoned the sex 'season ticket' in favour of financing Williams' lifestyle.

He took out a tenancy on a £550-a-month marina flat near Swansea courthouse so the pair could meet regularly for sex in the afternoons.

The landlords confirmed to us that Judge Price DID take the tenancy and that they had seen him at the flat with Williams. They claimed they are now chasing the lawyer for unpaid rent.

Judge Price also paid for Williams' mobile phone and food while giving him cash handouts and access to his personal credit card as perks.

So confident had Price become in his secret double life, he even introduced Williams to his 56-year-old wife Theresa at a rugby match.

Williams said: "She asked me if I had a girlfriend and I said I was single. She seemed nice and when it was time to go I kissed her on both cheeks. But Gerald later told me she'd guessed I was gay."

Judge Price even PROPOSED civil partnership to Williams after a lovers' tiff.

Williams said: "He got down on one knee and promised he'd leave his wife. I was just to bear with him while he sorted out their finances. I was quite shocked and said, 'Yes, but we'll see if you have the guts to leave her.' I really wanted him to do it. I had strong feelings for him."

And it was Judge Price's vow to leave his wife that brought the secret relationship to a head. Williams revealed: "Gerald and Theresa had a big argument and later I was with him in the pub.

"After a few pints I said to him, 'It's now or never - do it!' And he didn't. But when we got back to my flat I asked for his phone to phone my mother, then I actually phoned his wife and told her everything.

"I said, 'It's Chris, you met me at the rugby. Me and Gerald have been in a relationship since September.' And then I handed the phone to Gerald. To say he was shocked would be an understatement. He was mortified. He'd have been quite happy to lead his double life for the rest of his life without anyone knowing."

We have tried repeatedly to get Judge Price to account for his behaviour. He denies some of Williams' claims but won't volunteer details about their relationship. He feels our probe invades his privacy and, through his lawyers, insisted there is no public interest in our disclosures.

A Judicial Communications Office spokesman said: "Having been approached by the press, Judge Price has voluntarily provided a detailed account of the circumstances to the senior judiciary. The matter has been referred to the Office for Judicial Complaints to consider whether there has been a breach of discipline."

		Paedophile sentence under review
		The case of a paedophile who was spared jail after admitting sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl is to be reviewed by the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith. Anthony Lindus, 27, was given a suspended jail term after admitting two counts of indecent assault. At Teesside Crown Court on Monday, Judge John Walford said Lindus's offending was a breach of trust but did not warrant a prison sentence.
Judge John Walford

The decision has been condemned by children's charities. The court heard Lindus, formerly of Kempton Court, Darlington, attacked the girl on two separate occasions after her parents left her and two younger sisters in his care at their home between July 2004 and July 2005, and on 13 December last year. "What this judge has done is quite inexcusable" Nikki Kerr, Kidscape Judge Walford told Lindus: "I just hope they (the girl's parents) will... accept my conclusions that a custody setting might, in fact, be even more likely to produce in you a problem in the future than if you were treated within a setting in the community." Judge Walford said he had taken into account that the offences were serious and the age of the victim. But he said the defendant had no previous convictions and was vulnerable. Lindus was given a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. He will also be subject to a sexual offenders prevention order for life, put on the sex offenders' register for life and will be supervised for two years. Examine evidence Nikki Kerr, from Kidscape, welcomed the decision to review the case. She said: "This person has been convicted of sexual assaults against a seven-year-old girl on more than one occasion. "What message does this sentence send out to the victims of sexual abuse who want to see their abuser brought to justice? "What this judge has done is quite inexcusable." A spokeswoman for Lord Goldsmith said: "The Attorney General has got the power to review sentences that might be perceived to be unduly lenient. "He will look at all the evidence that was put before the court and he has 28 days to make his decision. "If he decides that the sentence was below reasonable expectations he can refer the case to the Court of Appeal."
This is not Judge Walford's first letting off of a pervert he seems to have an affinity with these sex offenders. Click HERE

20 July 2010 Last updated at 13:36

Devon paedophile spared jail due to 'treatment delay'

A paedophile has been spared prison because a judge said authorities would not be able to put him on a treatment programme during his sentence.

Harry Pullin, 70, was instead given a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, for abusing a boy under 16.

Judge Philip Wassall at Exeter Crown Court said any team who dealt with offenders in jail would not reach him by the time he had served his sentence.

Pullin, from Devon, was put on a sex offenders' treatment programme.

He was also placed on the sex offenders register.

'Sad state'

Sentencing Pullin, from Newton Abbot, on Monday, the judge said that he agreed with the teenager's parents that Pullin should be "locked up for as long as possible" after he admitted sexual activity with a boy.

However, he said that if he had jailed Pullin for 12 months, people who deal with sex offenders in prison would not have reached him by the time his sentence was served because of work-loads, not even "with the best will in the world".

"That is the sad state of reality and he would come out untreated," the judge said.

As well as being placed on the register for 10 years, Pullin was given a Sexual Offences Prevention Order banning him from from having contact with children under 16.

Community supervision

He also received a restraining order to keep him away from his victim's family.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: "Sentencing is entirely a matter for the courts."

A source within the Ministry of Justice said judges were made aware through the Judicial Studies Board of what treatments were available, both in prison and in the community and how they were delivered.

He said there were a range of custodial and community sentences that could be passed.

They included community supervision with a treatment requirement if a custodial sentence was not long enough for a prison programme to be completed.

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