Published date: 04 July 2016 |
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A RHUDDLAN granddad went to his garden shed at the bottom of the garden every day.
But it turned out that he was downloading thousands of child sex abuse films and images.
When arrested, defendant Raymond Parry, 73, told police it had become an obsession.
He said it was akin to building up a stamp collection.
Parry of Rhyl Road in Rhuddlan, was jailed after he admitted downloading child abuse images and movies.
He was found to have made 35,775 indecent images,163 of them being classed as category A, the most serious.
The pensioner also had 366 indecent movies of children, 126 of them at category A.
Judge Rhys Rowlands, sitting at Mold Crown Court, jailed him for eight months.
He was ordered to register with the police as a se. offender for the next ten years.
A ten year sexual harm prevention order was also made.
The judge said that it was “serious and disturbing offending” committed over a nine month period.
Only a limited number of the images had been examined because of the sheer number of them, he said.
“Interviewed, you said that you had been downloading each day, that it had become an obsession akin to a stamp collection.”
He said that the case was aggravated by the young age of the children in the images and films, from four upwards, and the appalling nature of some of the images.
Judge Rowlands rejected a suggestion that Parry should be placed on a community order and sent on a community internet se. offender programme.
“In interview with the probation service, you deny having any se.ual interest in children. That is something I do not accept. It flies in the face of common sense as far as I am concerned,” he said.
He took into account his early guilty pleas in the magistrates’ court and the fact that he was a man of no previous convictions.
But there was no contrition on his part and no understanding of the harm he and others who accessed the films and images caused.
“I am firmly of the view that it has to be immediate custody,” he said.
Prosecuting barrister Jade Tufail told how police received intelligence that in.ecent material was being downloaded at his address and executed a search warrant at his home in December.
He said he had worked with computers, kept them as a hobby, they were locked in his shed and only he had access.
It became an obsession, he would download material every day, and he compared it to collecting stamps.
Defending barrister Sarah Yates said that her client was a man of good character aged 73, a granddad to two, who had co-operated with the police and admitted what he had done.
The family were all aware of what had been going on which would help keep him out of harm’s way in the future.
Miss Yates argued that he would benefit from a comprehensive programme run by the probation service.
But the judge said that he showed no insight into the problem and had no empathy with the little children.
“I just wonder how a member of the public would feel if I drew back from immediate custody. There is no genuine contrition,” he said.
Unless an individual showed genuine contrition and a wish to address his demons then he would not make a community order, the judge explained.
“The public are appalled by such offences,” he said.
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