Teacher charged over `child porn'

Friday 01 August 1997 23:02 BST

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The director of music at a leading public school has been charged with possessing indecent photographs of children. Adrian Stark, 33, a senior teacher at St John's School, Leatherhead, Surrey, was arrested by police on Wednesday and suspended from his post by governors on the same day.

A Surrey Police spokesman said officers had searched a property in the grounds of the school and had "seized a quantity of obscene material". Mr Stark, who was named in a statement authorised by school governors, has been a teacher at the St John's since 1995.

Michael Streeter

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