THE wife and daughter of a man accused of downloading child pornography have given evidence against him at his trial.

Linda and Michelle Adderley were among six people to appear at Teesside Crown Court as witnesses for the prosecution.

Albert Adderley, 55, is in the dock accused of making and possessing dozens of indecent images of children.

He claims the pictures and movie clips were downloaded onto his laptop computer when he was not there.

In a statement to the court, he suggested that students at a training college where he worked might have been responsible.

An electronics expert who examined the laptop found that the illegal porn was downloaded when “Al” was logged on.

Mrs Adderley told the jury of nine women and three men that neither she nor her 28-year-old daughter were to blame.

Mr Adderley’s defence case began yesterday and he told the court he took his Fujitsu laptop to work “every day”.

The jury heard he was an electrical instructor at South West Durham Training, in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, until May 2008.

When he left that post after three years, the father-of-two told the court he became an electrical tutor at Darlington College.

The jury has heard that evidence of a vile chatroom conversation in November 2006 was found on Mr Adderley’s computer.

Internet searches using the terms “preteens”, “spanking” and “underwear”

were made the following year, it is said.

Mr Adderley, of Durham Road, Stockton, who denies all the charges against him, told the jury yesterday he has never knowlingly downloaded porn.

Asked by his barrister, Robert Adams if he had purported to be “Sally” in the sick chat-log, he sternly replied: “No.”

Mr Adderley told how he was arrested at home in October 2009, on the morning of his mother-in-law’s funeral.

He disputed claims by bosses of the training company that no member of staff was allowed to use their own computers.

The instructor told the jury he had permission from an IT expert because the college’s machines were not as good.

The trial continues.