Wrexham,North Wales - Man from Wrexham admits downloading indecent child images

Published date: 11 February 2016 | 

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A MAN from Wrexham has admitted downloading indecent images of children from the internet.

Stephen Lyons, 63, had denied eight charges and was due to go on trial at Mold Crown Court yesterday. 

But he changed his pleas and accepted what he had done.

A judge adjourned sentence so Lyons could be assessed by the probation service to see if he was prepared to confront “his dark secret”.

Lyons, of Lambourne Road, Southsea, pleaded guilty to six charges of making indecent images of children by downloading them from the internet; one count of possessing 302 images; and one charge of possessing an extreme image depicting an act or oral sex between a person and an animal between October 2011 and December 2013.

In his basis of plea, he said while looking for legal pornography he had come across unlawful material which he never sought to keep, but which were retained within the computer.

Judge Geraint Walters said Lyons had made certain admissions in interview.

He took into account that there was only one image at category A – the worst kind. 

One was at category B and the remainder were category C.

The judge said Lyons’ approach was consistent with somebody who would not quite bring himself to accept what once did happen and he sought to find an explanation with the computer or a virus or something of that sort.

But the fact Lyons had now admitted the offences might be the first step towards seeing whether, instead of sending him immediately to prison, a better course might be to help him 

with the dark secret that he had lived with.

The probation service would find out whether he was the kind of man who was willing to confront that issue.

Andrew Green, defending, said that his client was prepared to engage with the probation service.

Sentence was adjourned and Lyons was bailed in the meantime

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