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Brierfield DJ admits indecent pictures charges
9:12am Thursday 22nd May 2008
A BROADCASTER who helped set up school radio stations across East Lancashire has admitted taking indecent photos of children.
David Blaxhall, 47, also pleaded guilty to a number of charges relating to pornographic images of children found on a computer.
Blaxhall, of Longridge Heath, Brierfield, admitted four charges of taking indecent photos of a child and three of making indecent photos.
Blaxhall has been running The Radio Surgery, a Brierfield company specialising in training schools and colleges in the art of broadcasting and has worked at schools across the area in the last few years.
They include St. Bede's High School, Blackburn, Gawthorpe High School, Padiham, Edge End High School, Nelson, St Hilda's RC High School, Burnley, Darwen Vale High School, West Craven High Technology College, Barnoldswick, and Park High School, Colne.
Blaxhall hosted a Sunday show at Darwen-based 107 The Bee radio station at the time of the alleged offences at St Bede's but had not worked for the station since his arrest.
He has previously spent time working at the Nelson-based 2BR radio station.
Blaxhall admitted the charges when he appeared before Preston Crown Court yesterday.
He was bailed until July 2 for sentencing.
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Ex-Pat, 2000 Miles away says...
1:38am Fri 30 May 08
How can some little tease ruin a mans career like this?
This was a honeysting trap and all the little **** involved i hope you are very proud of yourselves, and when you are older i hope you realise what you have done!
Burnley Taxpayer, Burnley says...
9:36am Mon 9 Jun 08
Ex-Pat wrote:He is an adult responsible for his own behaviour. You must be sick if you still support a self-confessed paedophile. Taking indecent photographs of children does not qualify him as a 'decent bloke'.
I know this bloke personally and he is a decent man, he has worked in local communities and helped them no end, he has worked within local school radio and because some little slapper flashed her knickers at him he had got a little bit carried away and filmed it, encouraged by her at the time. How can some little tease ruin a mans career like this? This was a honeysting trap and all the little **** involved i hope you are very proud of yourselves, and when you are older i hope you realise what you have done!
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