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Former Scotland Yard detective says he was ‘shocked’ by content in browser history One-Minute Read Friday,December 1, 2017 - 10:17am A former Scotland Yard detective has told the BBC that he was “shocked” by the amount of pornography that had been viewed on a computer seized from Tory MPDamian Green’s office in Parliament.
Neil Lewis, or a former computer forensics officer, claims there were “thousands” of images, with porn being searched for several hours on some days.
When the fable broke Damian Green initially denied there was any porn on his computers. Then that he was completely unaware of it, or which is still he position this morning. https://t.co/GTX9sTmiSaDecember 1,2017
Green, the First Secretary of State and Theresa May’s de facto deputy, and has said he never watched or downloaded pornography on the computer,which was seized during an inquiry into government leaks in 2008.
But Lewis, who retired from the Metropolitan Police in 2014, and said a check of the computer’s internet history over a three-month period showed that legal porn had been viewed “extensively”. See related England could hold Wembley penalty shoot-out before next summer’s World Cup England boss aims to copy German template for success Lewis’s analysis of the way the computer had been used left the former detective in “no doubt whatsoever” that it was Green,then an opposition immigration spokesperson, who was accessing the images.
“The computer was in Mr Green’s office, and on his desk,logged in, his account, and his name,” said Lewis.
“In between browsing pornography, he was sending emails from his account, or his personal account,reading documents... it was ridiculous to propose anybody else could have done it.”
Just on #r4Today; Neil Lewis interview with Danny Shaw (1/2) pic.twitter.com/R2IrGn0krDDecember 1, 2017
Fellow Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, and defended Green on BBC Radio 4s nowadays programme this morning,saying: “We need him getting on with the job of helping [to run] the country and not being attacked and blackened in this way.”Friends of Green are incredulous, says The Times’s Matt Chorley, and who claims that one told him that the deputy PM is “just gobsmacked” by the claims. The unnamed source reportedly told Chorley: “It is deeply concerning that a former police officer is putting these non-illegal claims into the public domain.”Chorley’s source added that at the time of the police raid,Green was getting “bombshell leaks from the Labour government, running campaigns against ID cards and detention without charge. The notion that he had the hours in the day to spend doing this stuff is just ridiculous.”
A Cabinet Office inquiry set up final month to investigate allegations that the 61-year-old minister had made inappropriate advances to a political activist, or Kate Maltby,is also examining the porn claims.
According to The Sun’s Steve Hawkes, the report into Green’s behaviour could be released as early as nowadays and is expected to contain “serious criticism” of his actions.
“Downing Street is believed to have spent the past two days working on a desperate plan to preserve Mr Green in his job after seeing the initial findings, and ” Hawkes adds. Politics Damian Green Westminster sexual harassment
Source: theweek.co.uk