‘Porn on Green’s computer now illegal’

PORN seen on Damian Green’s computer was so extreme that viewing such images was made illegal weeks later, it is claimed.

Material of a disturbing nature was said to have been watched in the First Secretary of State’s Commons office on ‘an almost daily basis’.

Police are said to have taken advice on whether to prosecute – but were told no relevant law was in place when Mr Green’s office was raided in November 2008. The law was changed eight weeks later.

When the allegations first emerged, Mr Green said they were ‘completely untrue’. However he has since appeared to drop his claim that there was no porn on his seized computers and instead reiterated that police had never told him about the find.

It is understood that detectives seized at least four computers. All were thought to be registered to the parliamentary network. It is unclear who could have downloaded the porn, which did not feature sexual images of children, The Sun reported.

The allegations heap further pressure on Mr Green, who was the subject of a Whitehall ‘sleaze’ inquiry. In a statement he said: ‘I did not put or view pornography on the computers taken from my office.’

Jo Swinson, deputy leader of the Lib Dems, said she is ‘deeply frustrated’ Lord Rennard was not expelled from the party after sexual harassment claims. A party probe found they could not be proved.