Townshend cleared of possessing child porn

ROCK guitarist Pete Townshend, co-founder of The Who, was yesterday cleared of possessing pornographic images of children but still was placed on a national register of sex offenders.

That registration was part of a formal police caution Townshend received for accessing a website containing images of child abuse.

Townshend, 57, was arrested in January on suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children. The arrest was part of Operation Ore, an FBI-led crackdown on internet child pornography.