Former MP Eric Joyce appears in court on child porn charge
Former Labour shadow minister Eric Joyce – who quit the party after a string of Commons bust-ups – appears in court accused of making child porn image in the most-serious category
- Eric Joyce, 59, is charged with making an indecent photograph of a child
- The former Labour MP will next appear at Ipswich Crown Court on July 7
- Prosecutors allege a file, found on a device, was a movie file classed category A
By Graham Grant For The Daily Mail
Published: 18:51 EDT, 10 June 2020 | Updated: 19:20 EDT, 10 June 2020
Former Labour MP Eric Joyce has appeared in court charged with making an indecent photograph of a child.
Joyce, 59, who was MP for Falkirk in Scotland between 2000 and 2012, was given unconditional bail.
He will next appear at Ipswich Crown Court for a pre-trial hearing on July 7.
The former shadow minister, of Worlingworth, Suffolk, was arrested in November 2018.
Former Labour MP Eric Joyce has appeared in court charged with making an indecent photograph of a child
The charge against Joyce, pictured, alleges that between August 7, 2013, and November 6, 2018 he made an indecent photograph of a child.
Prosecutors allege that the file, found on a device, was a movie file classed as a Category A image.
He left Labour to serve as independent MP for Falkirk in 2012, stepping down before the 2015 general election. He spent 21 years in the army, rising to major,
