A Danish court is due to announce its verdict Monday against a former government minister accused of possession of thousands of images of child sexual abuse.

Henrik Sass Larsen, once a senior Social Democrat who served as industry minister in 2013-2015, has admitted he had more than 6,000 photographs and 2,000 videos on his computer depicting sexual abuse of children.

But he has denied the charges against him, saying the reason he had the material was to try to find out who had abused him when he was a child.

"He was looking for material of himself as a child," his lawyer Berit Ernst told AFP.

During his trial, the 59-year-old told the court he had received a link in 2018 to a 50-year-old video showing him being sexually abused when he was three years old.

He testified that he receive

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