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| Langham faces child porn sentence | Langham faces child porn sentence |
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| Actor Chris Langham is due to be sentenced for downloading indecent videos of children from the internet. | Actor Chris Langham is due to be sentenced for downloading indecent videos of children from the internet. |
| The Bafta-winning star of comedy dramas Help and The Thick Of It has been in custody since he was convicted in August on 15 charges. | The Bafta-winning star of comedy dramas Help and The Thick Of It has been in custody since he was convicted in August on 15 charges. |
| Some of the videos accessed by Langham, 58, of Golford, Kent, showed the worst and most horrific level of child abuse. | Some of the videos accessed by Langham, 58, of Golford, Kent, showed the worst and most horrific level of child abuse. |
| Langham admitted viewing them but pleaded not guilty because he did not want to be labelled a paedophile. | Langham admitted viewing them but pleaded not guilty because he did not want to be labelled a paedophile. |
| Judge Philip Statman warned that he would be considering handing Langham a prison sentence. | |
| He said that the custody threshold had been "well and truly passed" and he would be looking at "punishment and deterrence". | |
| Langham was arrested in November 2005 after video files were found on a computer, a laptop and an external hard disk drive at his home. | |
| They were downloaded between September and November that year, and Langham claimed in police interviews and during his trial at Maidstone Crown Court that he was researching a character he was developing for Help. | They were downloaded between September and November that year, and Langham claimed in police interviews and during his trial at Maidstone Crown Court that he was researching a character he was developing for Help. |
| He is due to be sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court later on Friday. | He is due to be sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court later on Friday. |
| The actor was cleared of charges of indecently assaulting an underage girl as well as two counts of a serious sexual offence. | The actor was cleared of charges of indecently assaulting an underage girl as well as two counts of a serious sexual offence. |