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Police established that Townshend was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images and said "he fully co-operated with the investigation."

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Townshend admitted in a statement on Saturday to using his credit card to view an American subscriber-only network that provided a gateway to international child pornography sites. But he denied being a pedophile, saying he had been researching a book that would refer to his experiences of sexual abuse as a child.

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