A man who shared indecent images on Skype and internet chat rooms has been jailed.
Former refuse collector Martin Adrian Johnson, 50, from Denbighshire, who had never been in trouble before, was caught by police using new software, which allowed them to examine peer to peer networks which disguised users and their use of the internet.
Johnson, of no fixed abode but who at the time lived at Dyffryn Street in Rhyl, admitted a total of 17 charges including making indecent still images and movies, including ones involving sexual acts between humans and animals, by downloading them from the internet, and possessing them.
Images
Prosecutor David Mainstone said the case involved 1,032 still images and 925 movies between January 2012 and February of this year, many of them of the worst category.
He admitted possessing extreme still and movie images involving sexual acts between humans and animals. The court was told he had 583 extreme movies.
Johnson also admitted five charges of distribution of indecent still images which involved girls as young as three either by Skype or through internet chat rooms.
The prosecutor said the defendant had effectively filmed himself exchanging images with other people. If he had not done so it would have been difficult to prove that he had distributed images.
Judge David Hale at Mold Crown Court sentenced him to three years and four months imprisonment, after he was traced under the new system.
He was arrested after his IP address was found by officers on a peer to peer sharing network. When his home was searched, officers found hundreds of images on two laptops.
Johnson was found to have shared some of those images with others via Skype or Internet chat rooms.
The judge said previously people believed that they could use peer to peer systems with very little risk to themselves.
But the new system allowed the police to look into the transfers within peer to peer software.
Judge's comments
Judge Hale told Johnson: “You had acquired peer to peer software with a particular router that you thought would prevent anyone finding you. It didn’t.”
The gravity of the offences was that somewhere in the world, those children had been abused.
“They went through the greatest misery to provide you with your entertainment. I don’t suppose you every thought about that,” the judge told him,
There was no evidence he had put his library on the internet to be shared with others, but he had used Skype and chat rooms to talk to other like-minded people and showed the images, the judge said.
Simon Killeen, defending, said his client was a man of good character who had been married for 20 years and had four grown up children.
They had little to do with him, he lived alone in a flat following the breakdown of his second marriage and he worked for the local refuse service, but lost his job as a result of the investigation.
He had been spending between two and five hours a day on the internet and Mr Killeen said it appeared loneliness and solitude led him to embark on the offences which led him to court.
Police response
Investigating Officer Detective Sergeant Dave Mills at St Asaph CID said: “I welcome the sentence and hope this will reinforce our commitment to eradicate all forms of child abuse and relentlessly pursue those in our communities who perpetrate such vile acts.
"Each and every time an image is taken, uploaded or viewed a child is abused and those who commit such offences must learn there are victims behind each and every image."
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