Clause 49
Coroners and Justice Bill
6:00 pm
Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister, Justice; Harborough, Conservative)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is always ready with the word that is needed. A pervert in his office or the back room of his house could be creating grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene images. Having drawn them or created them on his computer, however people do such things, he would be in possession of it. One could go through the whole of this part of the Bill and decide that he fits into this, that or the other category, but he would not have done anyone else any harm. He may have drawn the image for his own gratification and may look at it, but what he does with it in his house will not damage the public or the wider world.