![]() ![]() The statement said there would be no further comment before the sentencing.ĭuring emotional testimony to the court, Langham had denied claims by the female fan, now aged 25, that he had taken her virginity in a London hotel when she was 14. In a brief statement, read out later by his solicitor, Angus McBride, Langham thanked the jury and conceded that the child pornography charges were ones he had "made admissions to from the moment of my first arrest", despite his not guilty plea. "In my judgment, and I have thought long and hard about this, it would a misplaced kindness to give you bail at this stage," he told the actor, who listened to the verdicts with his eyes closed. Judge Philip Statman remanded Langham in custody prior to sentencing on September 14. ![]() However, immediately afterwards they convicted the star of The Thick of It on 15 counts of making an indecent photograph of a child between September and November 2005. ![]() Jurors at Maidstone crown court, in Kent, took less than three hours of deliberation to find him not guilty of six charges of indecent assault and two charges of buggery between January 1996 and April 2000. The 58-year-old was cleared of having sex with an underage female fan. The actor and writer Chris Langham was today found guilty of possessing child pornography and warned he could be sent to jail. ![]()
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