Golf club professional is suspected of downloading child pornography

Guy Dean, who has worked at clubs in Penn, Rowley Regis, West Bromwich, Pelsall and Cannock over his career, was arrested in April, it has emerged.

Penn Golf Club accepted his resignation with immediate effect after the arrest.

Mr Dean, aged 43, today told the Express & Star he had helped police with their inquiries to date. He has not yet been charged and has been bailed to a date in September.

He said: "There's nothing I can say yet really as the investigation is ongoing. That's the situation in which I find myself.

"I've helped with police inquiries. It's very delicate at the moment. I have told them everything that I know."

Mr Dean had continued to offer tuition at Fishley Park, Pelsall, after his resignation at Penn. Roy Johnson, a director of Fishley Park, said: "He wasn't an employee. He came and did lessons with us and that's it. Fishley Park is a family business but I wasn't aware of this arrest until now. In the light of these events we have now parted company."

According to Fishley Park's website, Mr Dean had been teaching there since 1991. He started his professional career at Beaudesert Golf Club in Rugeley Road, Cannock, in 1986. In 1996 he joined ranks with European Seniors Tour player Jim Rhodes at South Staffordshire Golf Club. He was also head professional at Dartmouth Golf Club, West Bromwich, before he spent five years as head professional at Dudley Golf Club, Rowley Regis, in 2000.

In 2005 Mr Dean became head professional at Penn Golf Club in Wolverhampton, which he left with immediate effect in April after tendering a resignation. Staffordshire Police spokeswoman Faye Casey said: "A 43-year-old man from Bloxwich was arrested in April on suspicion of possession of, and making, indecent images of children.

"He has been bailed, pending further inquiries, to a date in September." Penn Golf Club declined to comment citing legal reasons.