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'Computer infected with virus'(Leicester Mercury Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)A teacher accused of storing child porn on a computer claimed his PC had been infected with a virus which dialled porn websites, a jury heard. Pornographic material was found on a PC at a Conservative association which had been used by Robert Dockerill. Dockerill (31) was said to have told Valerie Clare, chairman of Erewash Conservative Association in 2002, about the virus after the porn had been found. He was then deputy head of sixth form at Loughborough Grammar School and deputy chairman of the association. Prosecutors say he used PCs at the school and his party office to download the pictures. Giving evidence at Birmingham Crown Court, Mrs Clare said she rang the key-holders to the office to ask if they had been there on that Sunday at 4pm. When she met Dockerill the next day, Mrs Clare claimed he told her he had been in the office on Sunday morning. Because he had forgotten to print some work, he told her he had e-mailed it to his school computer. She said: "He had learned there was a virus on the school computers and this, he believed, had affected the office computer and dialled websites of a pornographic nature." Two years later, police seized four computers linked to Dockerill, of Clumber Street, Long Eaton, on which were allegedly found pornographic images. Dockerill denies eight counts of making indecent images and 12 of possessing indecent images. The trial continues. |