A Flintshire author has today admitted making and possessing indecent images of children and sex involving a horse.
Defendant Richard Holland, 51, of Tai Nestig, Gwernaffield near Mold, pleaded guilty at Mold Crown Court to a total of ten charges.
He admitted possessed 3,642 still indecent images of children aged between eight and 17 between November 2011 and February this year – 79 at the most serious category A, 1,486 category B and 2,077 category C.
Holland - who wrote the book Haunted Wales - also admitted possessing on January 31 last year 41 indecent images of children – 13 category A, 24 category B and four category C.
The defendant admitted three charges of making indecent images and three charges of making indecent movies by downloading them from the Internet.
He also admitted two charges of possessing extreme images – portraying sexual activity between a person and a horse.
His barrister Oliver King said that Holland accepted full responsibility for the offences.
He would like the opportunity to be assessed for his suitability to be placed on a specialist course.
Mr King said that his client appreciated that there were a number of class A material but he had taken the first step towards admitting that he was looking at such material and that he had a problem.
Judge Rhys Rowlands agreed that the case should be adjourned for reports and said that the outcome would either be custody or the programme.
He had pleaded guilty which was important and that would reduce any further sentence, whatever that was.
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