Published date: 15 February 2016 |
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A MAN lost everything after he was found to have downloaded four indecent movies of child abuse.
Anthony Williams, 44, was expected to lose his job, and he had lost his wife and the home he shared with her and their two children, said Judge Geraint Walters, sitting at Mold Crown Court.
Williams, of Benjamin Road in Wrexham, accepted he had a problem and had already paid to attend a course – the type the court would normally send people like him on.
“You completed it successfully,” the judge told him.
In the circumstances, particularly as the case involved only four movies, he was placed on a three-year community order.
He was placed on 50 days rehabilitation “to ensure you maintain the progress that you have made on the private course that you attended”.
Williams was ordered to register with the police as a sexoffender for five years.
A five-year sexual harm order was also made to control his future internet activities.
The defendant admitted three charges – two of making indecent movies by downloading, and a third charge of possessing movies.
The case related to a total of four movies – three at the worst possible category A and one at category B.
Prosecuting barrister Anna Pope told how in July of last year, police executed a search warrant at his then home in Richmond Road, Acton, acting on intelligence that images were being downloaded onto an IP address at the premises.
He was present at the time with his wife and two children.
He took an officer to one side and said he had downloaded some videos and that it was nothing to do with anyone else.
Police seized computer equipment and when interviewed, he admitted downloading images of children.
He admitted downloading porn and said that 95 per cent of the images were adult.
The defendant described the medication he was on for depression and said his sex drive diminished.
He said he started to research pre-teen pornographic images of children aged between 10 and 12 and would download them twice a week.
They went into a download folder where he deleted them.
When the equipment was examined, the four movies were found on a memory stick.
They had been deleted and could not be opened without specialist software.
Andrew Green, defending, said Williams had admitted the offences at the local magistrates’ court and had been sent to the crown court for sentence.
The case involved a small number of movie images which had already been deleted.
Judge Walters told him: “I believe you will lose your job – the chances are that you will.
“You have lost your wife and the home you shared with her and the children – all because you used the internet to look at pornography.
"It developed and you went the wrong side of the line.
“It is hard to imagine a man standing before the court who has lost more than you already have.
“Since you committed these offences, you paid privately in order to attend a course aimed at dealing with internet sexual offending.
“You completed it successfully.”
The judge added: “The reality here is that nothing that I could properly do to you could punish you over and above the punishment you have already inflicted upon yourself, or others have inflicted upon you.”
In view of the fact the case involved four movie images he would be placed on a community order.
The judge warned that if he breached the order then he would be returned to court where he could receive a custodial sentence.
“I am sure you would not be that foolish,” he said.
see-http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/158620/wrexham-man-loses-everything-for-child-pornography.aspx
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