Who star Townsend bailed (insisted he had done so for research and was not a paedophile)

bbc ^ | 1/13/2003 | bbc

[Palladin]

I hate for you to find out this way that one of your old idols has feet of clay. But Scotland Yard doesn't get involved unless they have solid probable cause. Nor do they execute search warrants and carry out bags and bags of stuff on someone who may just have accidentally downloaded child pornography.

Townshend is toast.

[ClashWho]

Pete Townshend forced their hand by publicly admitting that he had used his credit card to access a child porn site. They HAD to arrest him after that. As a long time Who fan, I know that Pete has discussed his hatred of child pornography, as well as his own suspected sexual abuse, on several occasions over the past few years. Saying that he was laying the groundwork for his defense in the event that he was caught strikes me as very improbable.