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A former aide to Prime Minister David Cameron has been charged with making and possessing indecent images of children.
Patrick Rock, 63, was appointed as a senior policy adviser to Mr Cameron in 2011, and served in other roles during a long career working for Cameron’s Conservative party.
Mr Rock was serving at the post of deputy head of Downing Street’s policy unit when he was arrested at his west London flat during February after Downing Street contacted police.
Police searched offices and computers in Downing Street as part of their investigation.
The news of the arrest was not publicly declared until details were published in a newspaper three weeks later.
According to the National Crime Agency, the former Downing Street advisor had been charged with possessing 59 indecent images of children and three counts of making an indecent photograph of a child. The alleged offences said to have taken place between 31 July and 31 August 2013.
He has been bailed to appear at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on July 3.
The images have been assessed by Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) officers and CPS lawyers as meeting the definition of level C – the lowest category.
An NCA spokeswoman has defined the level C as “indecent images depicting erotic posing with no sexual activity”.
When asked about the recent incident that has brought another disgrace to Tory government, Mr Cameron has told while being at a post-EU summit press conference in Brussels: “I won’t be saying anything.
“It would be purely a matter for the courts and it wouldn’t be appropriate to comment.”
A senior lawyer with the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) organised crime division, Judith Reed has said: “The decision to prosecute has been taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
“We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.”
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