Senior Commons clerk on child porn charges
A senior office clerk at the House of Commons has been charged with making indecent images of children, Scotland Yard said tonight.
Philip Lyon, 37, from Basildon, Essex, was charged with 10 counts of making indecent images of children and was bailed to appear before Bow Street Magistrates Court on September 10, a Scotland Yard spokeswoman said.
The Sun newspaper reported that police swooped on the House of Commons and seized computer equipment as part of an investigation into an Internet child pornography ring.
The report continued to say that detectives from the Metropolitan Police Clubs and Vice Obscene Publications and Internet Unit got a warrant to search Lyon’s office at Westminster, following a raid five days earlier at his home.
Lyon’s main duties are arranging Prime Minister’s Question Time for Tony Blair on Wednesday afternoons and he was said to have daily contact with senior backbench MPs.
