Man acquitted of child porn charges

Sep 27, 2017 | 2:27 PM

VERNON, B.C. — A Vernon man has been acquitted of child pornography charges, due to a technicality.

56 year old William Munton was facing two charges of making child porn, and one of possessing it.

However, BC Supreme Court Justice Hope Hyslop dismissed the case, after ruling  in favour of a defence claim that the search warrants police used to obtain the evidence were invalid.

Hyslop said in her ruling “material facts were omitted in the warrants” which were used to obtain images of alleged child porn from Munton’s computer, his cell phone, and on a CD found in his house.