A PERVERT who helped to run a worldwide paedophile network is facing a lengthy prison sentence after confessing to a string of sickening crimes.
Former serviceman Paul Hagan was described in court as the administrator for a website which distributed photographs of child abuse.
Organisers of the site were said at an earlier hearing to have amassed a collection of more than a million indecent pictures and film clips of children.
A loner who acted as the librarian of the ring was jailed indefinitely in August 2008 after a judge branded him “a very dangerous individual”.
Computer expert Philip Thompson, 27, from Stockton, was one of more than 50 suspects held after a joint investigation by police in London and Teesside.
Hagan, 46, of The Wynd, Pelton, has since been arrested, and appeared at Teesside Crown Court last week.
He pleaded guilty to 15 specimen charges of making indecent photographs of children in March, April and May, 2008.
He also admitted possessing nearly 15,000 images of child abuse, and distributing 4,390 pictures between October 2006 and February 2008.
Tim Parkin, mitigating, told Judge Michael Taylor: “The defendant knows that he will go prison for these offences.”
