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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Josh Payne

David Coote spared jail after schoolboy video found on laptop

Former Premier League referee David Coote arrives at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday (Phil Barnett/PA) - (PA Wire)

Former Premier League referee David Coote has been spared jail after he was found to have a sexual video of a 15-year-old boy in school uniform on his laptop.

Coote, 43, previously pleaded guilty to making an indecent moving image of a child of the most serious kind, and his sentencing judge said he had had a “spectacular fall from grace”.

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