Two retired Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with offences associated to the possession of pictures exhibiting youngster intercourse abuse as a part of an investigation right into a serving chief inspector who was discovered useless earlier than he was charged.
Jack Addis, 63, of no fastened handle and Jeremy Laxton, 62, from Lincolnshire, will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 9 February.
Both left the Metropolitan Police greater than a decade in the past.
Addis is charged with conspiracy to distribute or present indecent pictures of kids.
Laxton is charged with conspiracy to distribute or present indecent pictures of kids, three counts of constructing indecent images of a kid, possession of prohibited pictures of a kid, possession of utmost pornographic pictures and deliberately encouraging or helping an offence (misconduct in public workplace).
The alleged offences passed off between 1 January 2018 and 20 September 2021.
Laxton was arrested in September 2021 and Addis in November 2021.
In a press release, the Met stated the costs adopted a “lengthy and complex” investigation into Richard Watkinson, 49, who was a serving Met Chief Inspector for neighbourhoods policing on the West Area Command unit.
Watkinson was discovered useless in Buckinghamshire on 12 January – the day he was because of reply bail to be charged with conspiracy to distribute or present indecent pictures of kids; three counts of constructing indecent images of a kid; voyeurism and two counts of misconduct in public workplace.
His demise is being handled as unexplained however not suspicious. An inquest has been opened and adjourned.
Commander Jon Savell, accountable for the Met’s skilled requirements crew, stated: “Chief Inspector Watkinson was facing extremely serious and concerning charges, as the result of a painstaking and thorough police investigation.
“Before this matter got here to gentle, we had no earlier details about these allegations or to point the officer posed any threat to the general public. He had not confronted some other prison or conduct issues throughout his Met profession.
“He had been suspended from duty since his arrest.
“Two different males have been additionally arrested throughout the course of the investigation and have been charged, their issues will now progress via the courts.”
Source: information.sky.com”
