Former Labour shadow minister Eric Joyce pleads guilty to making child porn image
- Joyce, 59, had been charged with making an indecent photograph of a child
- Former minister from Worlingworth, Suffolk, was arrested in November 2018
- He served as the MP for Falkirk in Scotland between 2000 and 2012
Former Labour shadow minister Eric Joyce has pleaded guilty to making child porn images.
The 59-year-old, who was MP for Falkirk in Scotland between 2000 and 2012, has been ordered to sign the Sex Offenders register.
He pleaded guilty to making an indecent photograph of a child between August 7, 2013, and November 6, 2018, at Ipswich Crown Court.
Judge Emma Peters said that the single 51-second movie, found on the device, ‘depicts a number of children’.
‘Some are quite young, one is said to be 12 months old,’ she said. ‘Clearly a category A movie.’
Former shadow minister Joyce, of Worlingworth, Suffolk, was granted bail. Judge Peters instructed that a report be prepared before Joyce is sentenced on August 7.
Joyce was arrested in November 2018.
He left Labour to serve as independent MP for Falkirk in 2012, stepping down before the 2015 general election. He spent 21 years in the army, and rose through the ranks to become a major.
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Former Labour shadow minister Eric Joyce has pleaded guilty to making child porn images. He is pictured above at Westminster magistrates’ court in October