PAPER LACE STAR SENTENCED OVER CHILD PORN

Former PAPER LACE bassist JOHN CHAMBERS will be added to Britain's sex offenders' register after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.

Video tapes containing indecent images were found in the 54-year-old rocker's Nottingham, England home during a search by police last August (04).

The musician was sentenced this week (begs10JAN05) to 200 hours community punishment and five years on the offenders' register.

Nottingham Crown Court JUDGE DUDLEY BENNETT said, "Neither the public nor the courts take kindly to people who abuse children and photographing young children in this way is an abuse of children just as much as if there was physical touching because it can lead to their corruption. It would not happen unless people wanted to watch disgusting images of this type.

"There is a huge amount of mitigation in your case. You have never been in any trouble in your life. You are in poor health."

Paper Lace had several hits in the 1970s, including number one single BILLY DON'T BE A HERO.