Assistant planted porn on boss's computer

According to a report on the IoL site, Neil Weiner did not like Eddie Thompson and hoped he would get promoted if he was fired, jurors were told. Weiner is alleged to have anonymously sent police a CD containing 177 indecent images of children, saying they had come from Thompson's laptop. Police later found another 235 pictures on the computer, but there was no evidence they had been downloaded from the Internet. Full report on the IoL site

In a similar case, investigators are trying to determine who sent e-mails containing images of child pornography to Wisconsin lawmakers as part of a blackmail plot. According to a report on the News24 site, Ed Wall, the head of the state Justice Department's criminal investigations unit, sent an e-mail last week to the offices of all 132 state lawmakers warning them of e-mails that have been sent containing child porn. 'The sender acknowledges that the intent of the note was to place child pornography on the recipient's computer as leverage to attain a desired legislative agenda,' he wrote. Full report on the News24 site

And the UK High Court has ordered a chef to pay £10 000 in libel damages for a Facebook posting in which he called a former friend a homosexual paedophile. Out-Law.com reports that law student Raymond Bryce said he was neither. Jeremy Barber posted a picture of child sex abuse on Bryce's Facebook page along with the message 'Ray, you like kids and you are gay so I bet you love this picture, ha ha.' The allegation of paedophilia was serious and could have damaged Bryce's person as well as his reputation, the judge ruled. He said that it was not unknown for people wrongly accused of paedophilia to be attacked. Full Out-Law.com report