A FORMER news editor of BBC Radio Gloucestershire has been given a community order for downloading and distributing indecent images of children on his computer.
Graham Day, 58, from Park Way, Droitwich, shared 43 images and downloaded more than 800 pictures and films which included children, it has been reporter.
Day, who worked from the radio station's London Road, Gloucester base, was ordered to attend a sex offenders programme for three years, and sign on as a sex offender for five years. He is also banned from working with children for life.
Day had pleaded guilty at Worcester Crown Court to seven counts of making indecent images of children and four charges of distributing them.
Day, who was a Salvation Army member, was suspended from the charity in 2012, and he left Radio Gloucestershire more than a year ago.
The BBC said it was "appalled" at the news and a spokesman for the organisation said the organisation condemned Day's crimes in the "strongest possible terms".
