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Mar 2022
Trial date for ex-Harrogate headteacher charged with making indecent images of children
A trial date has been set for a former Harrogate headteacher who is charged with two counts of making indecent images of children.
Matthew Shillito, 42, denies making 20 Category B images and 3,723 Category C images between December 3, 2012 and December 31, 2015.
He will appear before Harrogate Magistrates’ Court for trial on July 21, 2022.
A case management hearing at the magistrates' court last Friday confirmed the date.
Shillito was remanded on conditional bail until the date of the trial.
He was appointed headteacher of Harrogate’s Western Primary School in 2019.
He was previously headteacher across the Goldsborough Sicklinghall Federation of schools.
North Yorkshire Police said in a statement in September 2021 that none of Shillito's alleged offences related to his employment.
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