December 2014

Man had videos of young girl in sex act with hairbrush and scenes of bestiality

A 51-year-old man whose mobile phone was found to contain an indecent video of a girl and images of extreme pornography involving adults and animals has been made the subject of a three-year community order.

As part of his sentence David Whittaker will also be supervised by the probation service for three years and he will have to take part in a sex offender treatment programme.

Back in March 2011 Whittaker, now of no fixed abode, was jailed for possessing indecent images of children and was made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order and told to notify the police about any change of address.

Bradford Crown Court heard today (Friday) that when police went to a property in Mixenden just over a year ago Whittaker claimed not to have a mobile phone.

Eventually the device was handed over and the indecent images were found.

Prosecutor Andrew Dallas said the video clip showed a girl performing a sex act with a hairbrush and the extreme pornographic images included scenes of bestiality.

Whittaker admitted possessing the indecent images and failing to comply with his notification requirement after he didn’t tell the police about a change in his address.

The court heard that Whittaker had already spent five months in custody on remand and Judge Colin Burn said the community sentence was a chance for the defendant to make sure he did not offend again.

The judge also imposed a new sexual offences prevention order and said Whittaker would have to continue to notify the police of his where-abouts

March 2011

Jail for the pervert who lived in a tent

A paedophile caught with almost 250 indecent images of children as young as five has been jailed for two years.

David Whittaker, 47, currently of no fixed address, but previously of of Hunger Hill, Halifax, stored the images on his phone, computer and on DVDs.

He told police the images were already on the phone when he acquired it.

He said he tried to delete them. He admitted he had used his computer to access pornographic sites but said he had not been looking for children. He was arrested in November 2008, but was released on bail to live at an address in Blackpool.

But he failed to ever go to that address and instead lived in a tent.

He was caught a second time in March 2009 in breach of his bail and having failed to sign the sex offenders register, as well as having more images on his phone.

David McGonigal, defending, said that the 245 images was a relatively low figure.

“By this court’s standards, this is not a significant number of images. It’s a relatively small number.”

Whittaker admitted 20 counts of making indecent images of children and two of possessing indecent images.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said Whittaker’s behaviour directly caused the abuse of children.

“Without you providing the market these young children would not be abused, damaged or scarred,” said the judge.

Whittaker will serve two years and has been given a sexual offences order for 10 years.