A MARCHAM pilot has been found guilty of child sex offences over his conduct with a boy in India.
Bartle Frere, 50, who previously worked for British Airways, was convicted by a majority of 10 to one of two charges of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
The jury also found him unanimously guilty of six charges of possessing indecent photographs of a child, which related to pornographic videos found in the loft of his former home. It was alleged he used his job with the airline to meet boys in India and give them money and gifts.
However Judge Peter Johnson released Frere, of Netherfield House, Marcham, on conditional bail after the jury at Bournemouth Crown Court was unable to reach a verdict on the remaining 17 charges he faced.
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He told Frere: “The Crown is likely to seek a re-trial in respect of the outstanding counts and I give them 14 days. In the meantime I renew your bail.”
The other 17 charges are three offences of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence, five counts of indecent assault, one count of indecency with a child, two charges of buggery, one count of sexual activity with a child, one charge of attempting to record a person doing a private act and four charges of making indecent photographs of a child.
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