Convicted Celtic view photographer John Cullen finally identified

[Googsly 8]

I'm itching to post something funny but , the word EXTRANEOUS has put paid to that .

Edit. The comment I was going to post is irrelevant now anyway

 

[Tiddilywinks]

Copy of case from Scotsman.......

Father who took photos of nude boys walks free
A FORMER photographer who worked with Celtic FC has walked free from court after admitting taking pictures of naked young boys.
By The Newsroom
Tuesday, 25th May 2004, 2:00 am

John Cullen, 49, of Pollokshaws, Glasgow, took children as young as ten back to his flat before persuading them to pose for the camera.
Cullen avoided a lengthy jail sentence and was placed on probation for three years at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday after he pled guilty to a charge of lewd and libidinous behaviour.
The sentence provoked outrage from one children’s charity after it emerged that none of the boys on the 250 images taken by Cullen had been traced.

A spokeswoman for Children First said: "Behind every indecent image of a child, there’s a real child. Children depend on adults to keep them safe.


"It is essential that the offending behaviour is addressed and that offenders are not released back on to the streets to repeat such crimes against children.
"We must show children that they can come forward to tell about their experiences."
Cullen’s crime was first uncovered in May 2002, when cleaners were sweeping out a room at Celtic Park where Cullen kept his equipment.
The workers discovered a black bin bag and opened it to check if it was rubbish. Instead, however, they found bundles of black and white photos of nude and semi-naked young boys.


Officials at the club immediately called the police, before quizzing the married father-of-two about the photos. He admitted to inviting children to a house in Glasgow in 1982, where he took a series of photographs.
Cullen had first appeared in court last October, but the case was continually adjourned to allow police to try to identify the victims.
Despite prosecutors calling in specialist help from Scotland Yard’s paedophile unit, they still remain nameless.
Procurator-fiscal Liz Ramsey did say, however, it was believed the boys were aged between ten and 13.


Cullen was sacked from Celtic in June 2002. Some of his former colleagues, including Celtic View editor Joe Sullivan and club security chief Ronnie Hawthorn, had been due to give evidence against him.
In court yesterday, Sharon Gardener, defending, said: "This man realises that he has problems in his life and needs the help to address them as soon as possible."
Sheriff Susan Raeburn QC told Cullen: "You will be placed on probation, but breach this order and you will be brought back to court, where a custodial sentence will be passed."

Two Tier Judiciary, Sheriff Susan Raeburn what about the victims

 

[HamiltonJungleBear]

Is it a coincidence that this news comes out on a day when the next day’s sports headlines will be covering another story?

 

[Andre55]

Am I right in saying he had hundreds of indecent images of youngsters and none of them were ever traced?

big black bin bag full of them found in a locker by the cleaners supposedly!
Most, if not all, never identified. Shocking.

 

[Mad John]

Is it a coincidence that this news comes out on a day when the next day’s sports headlines will be covering another story?

It’s not new.

It’s an old link.

A weird bump.

 

[DovRob]

Exactly this. Even priests knew this back in the day. As you well know mate. This is why animals like Savile knew it was safe.

Its surprising that when ever pictures are shown of Saville's place in the Scottish highlands, which originally was the home of a Scottish mountaineers with no connection to Saville or his ilk, people are all over it wanting the house demolished.

The piggery which has 9 convicted beasts roaming around it gets public money and no thoughts of destroying the blot on Glasgow's landscape.

 

[ChildOfGoth]

I can see why journalists in Scotland (and the UK to a certain extent) don't go near it as their careers could be suddenly ended.

US journalists and US based journalists are an enigma though.

I know for a fact that certain journalists have received a lot of information on the alleged paedophille ring at Torbett Towers. Info that wasn't public knowledge at the time.

Fact finding done at their end, everything checked out, stories etc lined up - then nothing. Communican slows down, then dries up, emails go unanswered...

It's a strange one.

It has been written about but there is an omertà and political suffocation of the story and proper action . Effectively a cover up despite it being written about albeit not exposed to a full media assault .

One such link that mentions the main writings on it that I remember .

Kevin McKenna: Beautiful game made ugly by shocking revelations of abuse

FOR any lad born into a working class environment in Scotland the gift of being able to play football well can be both a blessing and a curse. He…

www.heraldscotland.com

What has changed is we know much more of those criminal decades now and there has been a gigantic action by ScotGov to deliberately sidestep these victims’ right to justice . And they are not the only ones there simply has to be so much more .

 

[Sheik Ma Shammy]

It seems to be embedded in their DNA.

 

[MrStruth]

No wonder Celtic discontinued with the Celtic View. Effectively most of the images printed on them were from a convicted paedophile.