A disgraced former Royal Navy commander, who was once honoured by the Queen, has avoided jail after being caught on camera by paedophile hunters posing as a 14-year-old boy.
Lieutenant Commander Graham Trewhella, from Gosport in Hampshire, blamed loneliness after being arrested for using dating app Grindr to meet someone he thought was a teenage boy, a court heard.
But when he arrived to meet ‘George’, the 62-year-old was instead greeted by a man from vigilante paedophile hunting group Trap, an online organisation with more than 241,000 likes on Facebook.
Hampshire Police were called by the group and later found more than 1,000 indecent images of children on his computer.
The Whalley Old Road development site.. A COUNCIL S ruling Labour group s obsession with housebuilding will destroy all the green space in its borough, a Liberal Democrat councillor has alleged. Cllr Paul Browne made the accusation as Blackburn with Darwen Planning Committee approved a controversial homes development at the second time of asking. Last month its granting of permission for the for 165 houses south of Whalley Old Road in Sunny Bower, Blackburn, had to be rescinded the following day after officials decided that residents and Conservative members claims it lacked a Minerals Resource Assessment were correct. On Thursday the committee approved the scheme after the MRA said: There is no prospect of minerals ever being worked in the future on the application site.”
A COUNCIL has revoked the planning approval for controversial proposal to build 165 homes on a gateway site just hours after it was given.
Blackburn with Darwen Borough’s planning committee granted permission for scheme off Whalley Old Road in Sunny Bower on Thursday night after a bitter debate. Council bosses were accused of putting ‘pocketing the cash’ ahead of residents interests and ignoring the need for a special report on mineral deposits below the land. Councillors gave outline planning permission for the scheme on the way into Blackburn town centre despite objections from Stephen Atherton, from the Sunny Bower Community Group and Conservative councillor Derek Hardman over the lack of such a report.