A judge has lifted an order banning the media from publishing the address of a police inspector, who has admitted making and distributing more than 300 indecent images of children, after a challenge by a PA reporter.

District Judge Graham Wilkinson made the order at Walsall Magistrates’ Court when Lee Bartram, an inspector with West Midlands Police, appeared on Thursday last week, saying that publishing his address could lead to him or his family being “targeted by terrorists”.

West Midlands Police Assistant Chief Constable Gareth Cann had submitted a letter to the court asking for the ban and arguing that the judge should take the current “severe” terror threat rating into consideration.