A former BBC journalist has been jailed for eight years for a string of kid sexual abuse offences.
Duncan Bartlett, 52, was jailed at Wooden Inexperienced Crown Courtroom in north London after admitting paying cash to observe reside streams of youngsters being sexually exploited.
He had pleaded responsible to 35 offences at an earlier listening to on 30 August.
The Metropolitan Police stated detectives seized digital units from Bartlett and recovered practically 6,000 indecent photos of youngsters.
In addition they discovered proof he made funds to folks within the Philippines who would organize reside movies of youngsters being sexually exploited for Bartlett to observe.
Bartlett – who labored as a BBC journalist for 14 years till 2015 — was arrested in September 2021.
He hung out as a correspondent in Tokyo and introduced “World Enterprise Report” on the BBC World Service.
Bartlett, from central London, continued working as a researcher and skilled in China at London’s SOAS college till after his responsible plea.
He seems to not have instructed his employer about his offending and the college didn’t uncover the main points of the case till in the present day.
A spokeswoman for SOAS confirmed Bartlett was a analysis affiliate and contractor on the London college’s China Institute between 1 January 2021 and 30 September 2024.
She stated: “Though not a everlasting member of employees or in a student-facing position, he was paid as a contractor to supply a collection of podcasts about China, producing his final version in September 2024.
“Neither SOAS nor the SOAS China Institute had been conscious of any authorized proceedings earlier than we had been contacted by the media about this case in the present day.”
