A former Greater Manchester Police officer has walked free from court after a sickening indecent video was found on his computer.
Lee Ashcroft was a serving PC in GMP's Special Operations team when the a raid was carried out on his home in Brookside Drive, Hyde, on 12 October 2020. It was not until two years later that he resigned, doing so three days before he pleaded guilty to making an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child at Liverpool Crown Court on October 24 2022.
Today (Monday December 19) the 39-year-old cried in the dock as he was handed a 10-month sentence of imprisonment suspended for two years. The disgraced copper then covered his face as he left court.
