Former Premier League referee David Coote has pleaded guilty to making an indecent image of a child.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old appeared at Nottingham Crown Court over an allegation relating to a category A video, the most serious kind, recovered by police in February.<\/p>\n
Coote, from Woodhill Road, Collingham, Nottinghamshire, was granted conditional bail ahead of an appearance on11 December.<\/p>\n
Judge Nirmal Shant KC ordered a pre-sentence report and said: “You have pleaded guilty to a serious matter. Whether this means custody or not will be decided when all the information is before the court.” <\/p>\n
The court heard Coote extracted the video from a hard drive to a laptop on 2 January 2020.<\/p>\n
He previously pleaded not guilty to the charge at a hearing on 10 September at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court.<\/p>\n
Coote, who wore a navy suit and black tie, spoke only to confirm his name and enter his plea during the six-minute hearing in front of Judge Nirmal Shant KC.<\/p>\n
He was sacked last year when comments made in a video about former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in 2020 came to light.<\/p>\n
The judge told Coote she was ordering a pre-sentence report to be carried out before sentencing.<\/p>\n
Judge Nirmal Shant KC said: “You must not go away with the impression that this will not lead to a custodial sentence.”<\/p>\n
In August this year, Coote was given an eight-week suspension by the Football Association over the Klopp footage.<\/p>\n
The charge of making an indecent image of a child refers to activities such as downloading, sharing or saving photos or videos containing abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Premier League referee David Coote has pleaded guilty to making an indecent image of a child. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-79713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}