{"id":27000,"date":"2026-04-12T03:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/ex-bbc-employee-convicted-on-child-porn-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:42:03","slug":"ex-bbc-employee-convicted-on-child-porn-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/ex-bbc-employee-convicted-on-child-porn-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-BBC employee convicted on child porn charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Dylan Dawes was found guilty after \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d was presented at Cardiff Crown Court<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A UK jury has found former BBC producer Dylan Dawes guilty of downloading more than 6,000 child porn images.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday, following a four-day trial. Dawes, who started working for the British public broadcaster in 2001, had pleaded not guilty to the three counts of possessing indecent images and three counts of making indecent images.<\/p>\n<p>Dawes was arrested in 2022 after police officers raided his home and seized computers and storage devices, where they discovered the incriminating material, according to the Daily Express.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDuring a period of time of about 16 years between December 31, 2006, and March 1, 2022, the defendant has been downloading child pornography\u201d<\/em> on four different devices, prosecutor Harry Baker reportedly told the court, adding that 192 of the images were category A \u2013 the most egregious kind.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Eugene Egan said the jury found Dawes <em>\u201cguilty on what they found to be absolutely overwhelming evidence,\u201d<\/em> according to Wales Online.<\/p>\n<p>The former BBC producer will be sentenced on May 14, and must now register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>The British state broadcaster has a growing record of employing and harboring pedophiles in its ranks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <imgsrc=\"\" alt=\"Former BBC presenter Scott Mills at a telethon, Salford, UK, November 18, 2022.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/637002-bbc-presenter-mills-pedophile-scandal\/\">BBC embroiled in another pedophile scandal<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just last month, Scott Mills, one of the BBC\u2019s highest-paid radio presenters, was axed following a reported renewed police investigation into sexual offenses against a teenage boy in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Infamously, the BBC allegedly suppressed complaints about sexual abuse perpetrated by Jimmy Savile, who is believed to have had as many as 450 victims. His crimes came to light after his 2011 death, and while he was never officially prosecuted, the revelations prompted an unprecedented investigation into how the BBC handles internal abuse reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Dawes was found guilty after \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d was presented at Cardiff Crown Court A UK jury has found former BBC producer Dylan Dawes guilty of downloading more than 6,000 child porn images. The verdict was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday, following a four-day trial. 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