Officers claim they unearthed the X-rated material while raiding Damian Green’s parliamentary office during an inquiry into government leaks. He is pictured outside his home in West London earlier this week
The Deputy Prime Minister has been hit with a fresh scandal amid claims that police found ‘extreme’ pornography on his computer.
Officers claim they unearthed the X-rated material while raiding Damian Green’s parliamentary office during an inquiry into government leaks.
But Bob Quick, a former assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, says he was forced to step down before he had a chance to report the pornography to parliamentary authorities.
His resignation came after he was pictured carrying sensitive anti-terror documents into Downing Street in 2009.
Mr Quick is said to have revealed the existence of the alleged material in a draft statement to the Leveson Inquiry about the 2008 raids.
It was never read out during the proceedings in 2011 and 2012 meaning that the allegations are only now coming to light.
Mr Green is already facing a Cabinet Office inquiry – which will now hear evidence from Mr Quick on Monday – after a Tory activist claimed he had touched her knee.
Kate Maltby accused him of making a clumsy pass and sending her a ‘suggestive’ text message.
The 31-year-old has claimed that Mr Green ‘put a fleeting hand against my knee’ while they were talking in a bar.
The First Secretary of State vehemently denies any wrongdoing, and has made clear he is prepared to release a cache of ‘friendly’ text messages to an official Cabinet Office inquiry in a bid to show there was nothing untoward.
A friend of Mr Green, 61, told the Telegraph there were other explanations for the alleged contact with Ms Maltby’s knee.
‘She claims it is a fleeting touch. But that could have been a tablecloth,’ the friend said.
Mr Green is understood to have instructed libel lawyers to assess the possibility of a defamation claim against Miss Maltby, whose parents are family friends.
Bob Quick, pictured, a former assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, says he was forced to step down before he had a chance to report the pornography to parliamentary authorities
Mr Green is already facing a Cabinet Office inquiry after a Tory activist claimed he had touched her knee (stock photo)
Hitting back at today’s claims, Mr Green said in a statement: ‘This story is completely untrue and comes from a tainted and untrustworthy source.
‘I’ve been aware for some years that the discredited former assistant commissioner Bob Quick has tried to cause me political damage by leaking false information about the raid on my parliamentary office.
‘No newspaper has reported this story due to the complete lack of any evidence.
‘The police have never suggested to me that inappropriate material was found on my Parliamentary computer.
‘Nor did I have a ‘private’ computer, as has been claimed. The allegations about the material and the computer, now nine years old, are false.
‘They amount to little more than an unscrupulous character assassination.’