January 2012

Jailed tutor fails in child contact bid

A COLLEGE tutor jailed for downloading indecent images of children has failed in his bid to quash a court order banning him from having contact with children.

Father-of-two Albert Adderley – who also took part in an online conversation about child abuse – was jailed for 12 months last August after he was convicted by a jury.

The 56-year-old had denied 16 offences of making indecent images of children and one of possessing indecent photographs of children while working as an electrical instructor for South West Durham Training Limited, in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, when the pictures and video clips were viewed in 2006 and 2007.

Adderley, formerly of Durham Road, Stockton, later left the training centre to lecture at Darlington College.

During his trial, he blamed students, aged 16 to 18, for sabotaging his laptop and accessing porn sites while he was away from his desk.

He watched his bid to overturn a Sexual Offences Prevention Order, banning him indefinitely from contact with children under 16, via a video link from Doncaster Prison, where he is serving his sentence – from which he could be released next month.

Teesside Crown Court was told by prosecutor Ian Mullarkey that Adderley had also posed as a fiveyear- old girl, Sally, in online chats about child abuse with a paedophile, and again blamed his students.

He said that the culprit must have entered the user-name Sally – which was the name of his dog.

He was arrested in February 2009 after a 16-yearold girl complained of sexual language he used on the internet.

He asked her to wear a short skirt for college so that he could see her legs, and she claimed that he had touched her leg.

The judge, Recorder Julian Goose, said that the chat conversations included talk of indecent sexual behaviour with adults and children.

The judge said: “I am satisfied that there is a real risk of harm to young female children.”

The application by Adderley was refused and the ban remains.