Civil servant's computers checked in child sex probe

Police in the North are tonight examining computers belonging to a senior unionist civil servant being held in the US on alleged child sex charges.

Thu, 21 Mar, 2002 - 19:56

Police in the North are tonight examining computers belonging to a senior unionist civil servant being held in the US on alleged child sex charges.

61-year-old Stan Mallon, the acting chief executive of the Ulster Scots Agency, was arrested in Chicago after allegedly arranging to have sex with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.

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