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A erstwhile BBC writer has been jailed for 8 years for a drawstring of kid intersexual maltreatment offences.
Duncan Bartlett, 52, was jailed astatine Wood Green Crown Court successful northbound London aft admitting paying wealth to ticker unrecorded streams of children being sexually exploited.
He had pleaded blameworthy to 35 offences astatine an earlier proceeding connected 30 August.
The Metropolitan Police said detectives seized physics devices from Bartlett and recovered astir 6,000 indecent images of children.
They besides recovered grounds helium made payments to radical successful the Philippines who would put unrecorded films of children being sexually exploited for Bartlett to watch.
Bartlett - who worked arsenic a BBC writer for 14 years until 2015 -- was arrested successful September 2021.
He spent clip arsenic a analogous successful Tokyo and presented "World Business Report" connected the BBC World Service.
Bartlett, from cardinal London, continued moving arsenic a researcher and adept successful China astatine London's SOAS assemblage until aft his blameworthy plea.
He appears not to person told his leader astir his offending and the assemblage did not observe the details of the lawsuit until today.
A spokeswoman for SOAS confirmed Bartlett was a probe subordinate and contractor astatine the London university's China Institute betwixt 1 January 2021 and 30 September 2024.
She said: "Although not a imperishable subordinate of unit oregon successful a student-facing role, helium was paid arsenic a contractor to nutrient a bid of podcasts astir China, producing his past variation successful September 2024.
"Neither SOAS nor the SOAS China Institute were alert of immoderate ineligible proceedings earlier we were contacted by the media astir this lawsuit today."
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