r/worldnews - A hard drive containing indecent images of children was not used as evidence against a former lord mayor of Leeds as it was kept in a UK police commissioner’s safe for 14 years. A police whistleblower flagged the hard drive’s existence to the BBC in September 2017.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot) The hard drive belonged to Neil Taggart, who was jailed in 2017 after pleading guilty to charges relating to the possession of indecent images and videos of children on his computer equipment.

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