Staff sells porn, gambling inside Buckingham Palace

by truthcaster | July 18, 2009 at 07:04 pm

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Paul Page, a Royal protection officer is accused of being drunk, playing poker, trade in porn and sleep while on duty.

Opening his defence yesterday at Southwark Crown Court, the father of five said: 'You didn't work for a living. That is the bottom line. One officer did sell porn. He used to get it from Holland and sell it to officers while on duty.

'Officers were running poker games for money in down time. Senior officers let it go.'

Page is said to have cheated fellow officers and others out of life savings in a scam he ran from Buckingham Palace.

His wife Laura, 42, was acquitted on Friday of related charges.

And it seems this protection officer is not new to controversy. In 2006, he was arrested for putting a gun to a photographers head.

Paul Page, 35, was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life following an incident involving our snapper Scott Hornby, 28, on Tuesday.

The Scotland Yard SO14 officer, on a career break from guarding the Queen, spent 33 hours in custody. He must report back to Grays police station, Essex, next Wednesday.

It happened after we went to interview him about £1.3million of his colleagues’ cash which was allegedly lost in a failed property venture.

Page confronted Scott after a car chase. Scott was rammed off the road, dragged from his car and frogmarched at gunpoint to a roundabout near the Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock, Essex.