IPCC probe: Teacher was questioned over indecent imagespublished at 12:32 British Summer Time 11 October 2016
As we've been reporting today, the police watchdog has said failings were made by British child abuse investigators which led to delays in following up Canadian police intelligence about suspected paedophiles.
The Canadian probe, called Operation Spade, resulted in Essex Police interviewing Southend deputy head teacher Martin Goldberg, who was found dead a day later.
- Martin Goldberg, who lived alone in Shoeburyness, had taught at Thorpe Hall school for 23 years
- Police found images on his computer of boys undressing in the school's changing rooms and at a leisure centre
- The images, both videos and stills, were believed to have been made from a hidden camera inside a bag from 2000 onwards, and seemed to be of boys aged between 9 and 12
- Officers questioned Goldberg on 9 September 2014; he died on 10 September
- Essex Police did not act on the already delayed information passed to them by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) for eight months
- An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) inquiry - published in May - found "high workloads" and a lack of staff led to a delay in realising Goldberg worked at a school