A SACKED council worker has been cleared of showing colleagues a ‘disgusting’ indecent video clip of child abuse.

Irene Yadjia was a family support worker when she received a link to the inappropriate video on her mobile telephone and showed it to fellow workers at Brent Council’s Granville Plus Children’s Centre in Granville Road, Kilburn, in March last year.

The 38-year-old was acquitted by a jury at Harrow Crown Court on Tuesday of showing an indecent image of a child, an offence under the Protection of Children Act 1978, following a two day trial.

Prosecutor Zoé van den Bosch had told the jury the previous day: “She indicated to her colleagues that she had received something disgusting on her phone.

“They had no warning and they had not asked that she show it to them. Her colleagues told her she had to report it to a manager.

“They expressed their disgust at what they had seen.”

Yadjia, of Churchill Gardens, Pimlico, had been sent by someone she knew a link to a video of a two-year-old being abused.

Witness Andrea Broderick, who also works as a family support assistant in Kilburn, told the court: “I looked at the phone for about five seconds, what I saw was really horrible.

“I said: ‘That’s really disgusting, who on earth would send you something like that?’”

The incident was later reported to managers and then Brent Council, which decided the matter should be reported to police, and Yadjia was arrested on April 16.

Sue Gates, Brent Council’s head of early years and family support, said after the verdict: “Irene Yadjia was immediately suspended and subsequently dismissed for failing to follow the correct child protection procedures.

“She should have reported this to her superiors rather than showing the footage to colleagues. No child in our children's centres was affected by or involved in this incident."