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The Wilby Paedo Files
The Wilby Paedo Files

Peter Wilby admitted having a sexual interest in children and accessing illegal images online since the 1990s.

IN August Peter Wilby, the former Independent on Sunday and New Statesman editor and media columnist for the Guardian between 2005 and 2009, was given a 10-month suspended prison sentence for child pornography offences.

To the shock of former colleagues, who had not realised his declining of freelance commissions since October last year was because he had been arrested and was awaiting trial, it emerged in court that Wilby had admitted having a sexual interest in children and accessing illegal images online since the 1990s...






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