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"Want to get rid of your boss and move up to his position? Put kiddie porn on his computer then call the cops! This was the cunning plan envisaged by handyman Neil Weiner of east London after falling out with school caretaker Edward Thompson too many times. Thankfully, Weiner didn't cover his tracks quite well enough to avoid being found out — earlier boasts about his plan to friends at a BBQ provided the police with enough evidence to arrest him for trying to pervert the course of justice. Frighteningly, however, between being charged with possession of indecent images and being exonerated, innocent (if 'grumpy') Thompson was abused and ostracized for eight months by neighbors and colleagues. With computer forensics for police work often being performed by 'point 'n click'-trained, nearly-retired cops, or languishing in a 6-month queue for private sector firms to attend to it, the uncomfortable question is raised: how easily might this trick have succeeded if Weiner had been a little more intelligent about it?"
heres the articl :
School handyman faces jail over child porn plot
A handyman from east London who ruined a school caretaker's life by planting child pornography on his computer is facing jail for perverting the course of justice.
Neil Weiner launched the "wickedly evil and vile plot" hoping to get Eddie Thompson sacked so that he could be promoted.
He sent police a CD containing 177 indecent images of children saying they had come from Mr Thompson's laptop, the Old Bailey heard.
A further 235 pictures were later found on the computer and the caretaker was arrested in 2006. He told police he had been set up by colleagues who did not like him but it was eight months before he was told no further action would be taken.
When the allegations were made public, he and his wife became afraid to leave the house, after he received threats and when he returned from suspension to Swanlea secondary school, in Whitechapel, east London, where he had worked since 1993, he said he was shunned by "almost all" of the staff.
"My life and good name was nearly destroyed by a villain who tried to destroy my reputation in a monstrous manner. This must be the work of a depraved mind," said the caretaker, now 62, in a victim impact statement read to the court.
Jurors heard that Weiner - said to be a computer "wizard" - was arrested in 2007 after a mobile used to make the initial anonymous call was traced to him. Richard Milne, prosecuting, said the child pornography on Scots-born Mr Thompson's computer was planted by Weiner "for no better reason than to get him the sack, and because he did not like him". Some of the child pornography images were level 4, the second most serious.
Married father-of-two Weiner, 39, of Dagenham, east London, was convicted of perverting the course of justice and two counts of possessing indecent images of children, each by a majority of 10-2. He was placed on the sex offenders' register and remanded in custody, and warned by Judge David Paget that he faced a "substantial custodial sentence" when he returns to the court on September 23.
The court heard that Mr Thompson, who did not get on with his deputy Martin Nunn and Weiner, Nunn's handyman assistant, shared an office with the two men. A month before the CD of images was sent to police, Weiner had spoken at a barbecue of his dislike for him and how he wanted to put child porn on his computer so he would be sacked.
Mr Thompson said he had the "fright of his life" when police told him what had been found on his computer. The caretaker, who was in court to hear his statement read out, added: "Now that the truth has come out, perhaps my wife and I can have closure on this dreadful episode of our life."
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