Eric Joyce: Former Labour MP sentenced over making indecent image of child

Former Labour MP Eric Joyce has been sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court to eight months in prison suspended for two years and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work for making an indecent image of a child.

Joyce, who served as Labour MP for Falkirk between 2000 and 2012, had on a device a 51-second film depicting a number of children, one of whom was said to be 12 months old.

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