Wrexham,North Wales - Wrexham man admitted to police he had downloaded child abuse movies

Published date: 21 January 2016 | 

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A MAN told police he downloaded 50 indecent movies of children, a court heard.

Anthony Williams, 43, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to charges of taking two indecent movies of a child and one possession charge.

James Neary, prosecuting, told Wrexham Magistrates Court yesterday that police executed a search warrant and seized computers, external drives and a memory stick from Williams’ home on July 28.

Investigators used specialised software to uncover category A – the most serious level of content – and category B movies.

The movies had been deleted from a computer and were only accessible using specialist software.

Williams, now of Benjamin Road, Wrexham, told police he had used pornography from a young age and it had always been hardcore.

He said 95 per cent of it involved people over the age of 16, but he had also previously viewed bestiality pornography.

Williams said he had mental health issues, had hidden a drinking problem from his wife and he was taking medication which made his sex drive “non-existent”.

In recent months he had been searching more and more hardcore images and he had started to research pre-teen pornography.

Williams admitted to using specialist websites to download 50 movies of girls aged 10 to 12, which went automatically into a download file on his computer.

After he had finished with the file, he would feel guilty and delete it and not download another for “a week or two”.

Mr Neary said Williams told police he had completely wiped and re-formatted the computer on which the material was discovered.

WIlliams had deleted the files using software which he had found by searching for ‘the best way to delete files’ on Google.

Williams, Mr Neary said, told officers he deleted the files because he “wanted them gone and didn’t want anyone to see them”.

He also admitted transferring the files onto a memory stick.

He described the content of the movies, included both adults and children, to officers.

Andy Holliday, defending, said the charges related to two movies and it “was not a case where there were thousands of images”.

It was also not a case of using deletion software to avoid detection, but he had viewed the images and getting rid of them once he had done so.

The category A movie was “at the lower end of the bracket”, said Mr Holliday, adding Williams had admitted his crimes right from the beginning.

District judge Mark Layton declined jurisdiction, partly because the starting point for category A images was a 12 month custodial sentence and because the material was not available for the court to view.

He also said there appeared to be a disagreement between the Crown and the defence over what the movies contained.

Mr Layton added he wanted more information about the standard rehabilitation programme which was included in the event of a community order being imposed, as Williams had already undertaken a programme voluntarily.

There was no indication of what was covered in that programme and whether he had done well.

Mr Layton granted Williams conditional bail pending a hearing at Mold Crown Court on February 11.

Conditions related to internet use, not to live at his old address and notifying the police of his place of abode.

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