Article: Fallen star escapes jail over child pornography Bay City Roller gets community service for possessing indecent photos of boys

A FOUNDING member of the Bay City Rollers escaped a jail sentence for possessing child pornography yesterday.

Derek Longmuir, 49, the drummer in the 1970s Edinburgh pop group, was convicted of being in possession of indecent photographs, videos and computer discs which featured young boys in a variety of sexual acts. He also admitted making indecent images of young children by downloading photographs on a computer from the internet. He was ordered to perform 300 hours' community service.

Longmuir, a nurse at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, was caught with the indecent material when police raided his flat in the city's Queen's Park Court in March 1998. A teenage Portuguese boy who was living ...

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