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England's fitness coach faces child porn charge

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September 23, 2008 10:54 IST
Last Updated: September 23, 2008 15:27 IST

England's [Images] fitness coach Marques Church will be sentenced this week after he was found guilty of downloading child pornography using an Internet connection financed by the England and Wales Cricket Board.

The 31-year old Church admitted downloading the content after he was arrested for running up a 23,000 pounds [approx Rs 19,32,000] bill on an Internet connection, paid by ECB.

When officials probed the bill, they found 14 indecent images of children on Church's laptop in a folder marked "incomplete", according to a New Zealand [Images] Press Association report.

Images included pictures of an 11-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy, the report said.

New Zealand-born Church, who has worked with star players including Michael Vaughan [Images] and Kevin Pietersen [Images], was understood to have resigned from his job as the team's strengthening and conditioning coach.

At a hearing in Loughborough Magistrates Court, prosecutor Lynn Manning said Church had become obsessed by the images after a breakdown in his long-term relationship and was previously of "good character".

Church will be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court on Friday.


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