Britain to outlaw violent porn

London - Watching and possessing images of rape and sexual torture is to be made a criminal offence in Britain for the first time, punishable with a jail term of up to three years, the government announced on Wednesday.

The plan follows a campaign by two British MPs and the mother of a schoolteacher who was killed in 2003.

Violent internet pornography was implicated in the trial of the man convicted of her murder.

Home office minister Vernon Coaker said there was an urgent need to tackle the problem because such images were becoming more easily available on the internet and control of their distribution more difficult.

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