Former BBC director ‘did not know how images got there’

A former BBC director caught with hundreds of prohibited images of children claims he ‘does not know they were there’, a court heard today (mon). 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…