Former policeman to spend Christmas in jail

Friday 24th December 2010, 2:59PM GMT.

Mr Gallichan appeared in the Magistrate's Court yesterday

A FORMER States police officer will spend Christmas in jail after being charged with 19 offences including making indecent photographs of a child.

Roy Charles Gallichan’s bail application was refused by Relief Magistrate Peter Harris yesterday in the Magistrate’s Court.

As well as the one count of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph between 9 December 2009 and 4 May this year at a property in the Island, the 52-year-old faces 14 counts of making indecent photographs comprised in a film showing a child between 1 January and 5 May this year.

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