Rock legend Townshend arrested

ROCK legend Pete Townshend was last night arrested by police in connection with child pornography offences.

The 57-year-old Who star, who admitted paying to access a website advertising child pornography but claimed it was purely for research purposes, was escorted by officers to a south-west London police station.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “He has been arrested under the Protection of Children Act 1978 on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, suspicion of making indecent images of children and on suspicion of incitement to distribute indecent images of children.”