Pfizer director held on child porn charges

A British-born executive of the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer has been arrested on child porn charges in the US.

Alan Hesketh, the company’s global patent director, is accused of posing as a 28-year-old woman on the internet while trading hundreds of images of children engaged in sex acts.

He allegedly traded the images with a man from Buffalo, New York while chatting online between June 2006 and May 2007.