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Pete Townshend to be 'given a caution'
Evening Standard Last updated at 00:00am on 10.03.03Rock star Pete Townshend will not be prosecuted for possessing child pornography, it was reported today.
The Who guitarist, 57, is expected to get a formal police caution, after insisting he accessed a child porn website as part of a research project into the horrors of the paedophile trade.
Sources say the decision came after detailed examinations of computers seized during a raid at his Richmond home.
Insiders say it now appears "highly unlikely" he will face a court appearance. Townshend's credit-card details had appeared among 7,272 names handed to police by the US Postal Inspection Service.
The charges he had faced - of possessing, making and incitement to distribute indecent images of children - could have led to up to five years in jail.
