Roger Daltrey has spoken about the child pornography claims made against Pete Townshend for the first time in an interview with Virgin Radio, claiming his bandmate is the victim of a "witch-hunt" over an investigation into accessing child porn. He told the station: "What I find so unfair is that it has become a witch-hunt and, because it is subjudice, he is not allowed to defend himself.”
Talking about Townsend’s claim that he subscribed to a child porn site as part of research for a book, Daltrey continued: "From what I can gather, 98% to 99% of people do believe him and I don't think he is going to let them down. I think he is telling the truth. I think the morality of the whole thing is very questionable as far as our society goes because he has been exposed and accused of doing something, something he has admitted to doing for certain reasons. Now if he can substantiate those reasons, then the least the police and our society owes him is to make this a priority and to get his case dealt with as quickly as possible. He is fine. He's just frustrated that they've taken his computers with all his music on it and because he is such a low priority on this thing."