Former Premier League referee David Coote has pleaded guilty to making an indecent image of a child.

The ex-official appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday in connection with an allegation relating to a Category A video, the most serious kind, recovered by police in February.

The 43-year-old, who wore a navy suit and black tie, spoke only to confirm his name and enter his plea during the six-minute hearing in front of Judge Nirmal Shant KC.

The former referee, of Woodhill Road in Collingham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, was granted conditional bail by Judge Shant and told he must appear in court again on Dec. 11.

The judge told Coote, who stood in the dock with his hands clasped in front of him, that she was ordering a pre-sentence report to be carried out before he was to be

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