Update: Mr Tucker has asked us to point out that the police accepted that someone else had used his credit card to access indecent images online. Mr Tucker says he was never arrested or charged and has never accessed or viewed indecent images.

 

A FORMER Lighthouse Family musician was investigated by Spanish authorities over allegations of child pornography.

London-born Paul Tucker, 40, who went to Newcastle University, had his home on the island of Ibiza raided by officers, a spokeswoman at the Palma headquarters of the Balearics Police confirmed.

The search was conducted in collaboration with British police as part of an international operation tracing downloaded images from a child pornography website.

Tucker's hillside villa near San Jose, where he lives with his wife and three children, was raided on March 24 and his computers were confiscated.

The songwriter, who has been living in a villa on the island for the past three years, denied downloading child pornography, according to Spanish magazine Interviu.

The computers were reportedly found to be free of any pornographic images, although Spanish police were unable to confirm details of the continuing investigation.

Lighthouse Family's 1995 album Ocean Drive sold 1.6 million copies in the UK and the duo went on to have considerable success in the late 1990s, although the band went their separate ways in 2003.