EX BBC director could have downloaded images ‘by accident’

A former BBC director caught with hundreds of sexual images of children on his computers could have downloaded them by accident, a court heard. Victor Melleney, 76, allegedly stored 832 indecent images of children across his laptop, desktop, two hard drives and a WiFi dongle between May 2011 and October 2018. Melleney, who worked on shows including Question Time and Panorama, admits he is a ‘prolific watcher’ of legal pornography but has no idea how the illegal material got there,…