Headmaster's child porn conviction scrapped over invalid search warrant

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A former principal of a Methodist Church school has been cleared of possessing child pornography, more than six years after his arrest.

in Mpumalanga after his arrest, had his conviction set aside by the Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday.Judge Yvonne Mbatha said the search warrant used by police when they seized his computers was invalid. “Therefore, the evidence obtained [through it] rendered the trial unfair and should have been excluded.”

Joubert also declared him unsuitable to work with children and ordered that his name be added to the National Child Protection Register of sex offenders. “I do not see him as a high risk and he has also experienced a public shaming in the media and a fall from grace.”

 

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