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Former Boris Johnson aide cleared of possession of 'extreme pornography'

Barrister Simon Walsh, 50, acquitted over images that prosecution argued showed activities likely to cause injury









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A barrister has been acquitted of possessing extreme pornography in a landmark case over the boundaries of what can be described as "extreme".

The jury was unanimous and took less than 90 minutes to clear Simon Walsh, 50, a former aide to London mayor Boris Johnson, and who served as a magistrate and alderman in the City of London, after a week-long trial.

The
case is believed to be the first to address whether images of anal
fisting, a sexual practice which is legal, and urethral sounding are
extreme pornography, as defined under the controversial section 63 of
the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. Earlier this year Michael
Peacock was acquitted of charges under the Obscene Publications Act
1959 of distributing obscene DVDs, which featured fisting and bondage,
discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM).Walsh was charged with
possession of six email attachment images, which were not found by
police on either his work or home computers, but on a Hotmail server
account he set up to receive and send sexual messages.Oxford-educated
Walsh was sacked from his position on the London Fire Authority on his
arrest in April last year. He was a man of impeccable character who had
made an outstanding contribution to society, the court heard, and had
previously chaired the City of London Corporation police authority and
licensing authority. He had been unable to work as a barrister since his
arrest on the charges, which carry a sentence of up to three years in
prison.His lawyer, Matthew Buckland, told Kingston crown court
that the case raised issues of private personal encounters and "how we
view them in an inclusive democracy".Walsh faced five charges
under the 2008 act, which stipulates images are extreme if they are
"grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and
if they "portray, in an explicit and realistic way" any act "which
results in, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person's
anus, breasts or genitals".The prosecution claimed three images,
found in attachments in Walsh's sent box, showed urethreal sounding,
where a medical instrument is inserted into the tip of the penis to
stretch the urethra and stimulate the prostate, acts that were likely to
cause injury to a person's genitals.Two images showed anal fisting, which was likely to cause injury to a person's anus, it argued.

The
defence argued there was no evidence of any serious injury in any of
those images, and that the activities were low risk. Walsh had taken the
urethral sounding images himself at a New Year's Eve party and sent
them only to other participants at the party, the court heard.A
sixth charge, of possessing an indecent image of an underage boy,
related to an attachment sent to Walsh which showed a sexually aroused
male with a ligature. Walsh told the court he had no recollection of
ever opening the attachment on the email, which was unsolicited and
unanswered.The defence claimed the image was not of a child but
an adult. It was also not possible to prove Walsh had opened the
attachment, the court heard.Walsh, whose Hotmail user name was
"Cityfister" with the password "scat", and who was a registered user of a
social networking website called NastyKinkyPigs.com, admitted to police
he had an interest in BDSM. He had practised fisting but disputed the
claim that the images were extreme pornography.Giving evidence, he denied ever hurting anyone and said: "I know the limits and I respect them."

Prosecutor Thomas Wilkins told the court Walsh was "a gay man who has what he described as a strange sex life".

Wilkins
said: "He doesn't dispute that he uses the email account purely for his
sex life. He doesn't dispute that he is interested in bondage and
sadomasochism." There was no dispute that Walsh had sent three of the
images, but, added Wilkins, "he disputes that they are extreme or
pornographic".