A PERVERT who was caught with thousands of disturbing images of children being abused also secretly filmed youngsters playing in the street outside his West Yorkshire home.
Ian Davison, 61, was jailed for six months yesterday after a court heard he was naked while videoing children through the bedroom window of his home.
Davison, who had taken a course in photography, was found to have downloaded more than 21,525 indecent images and movies of children.
Leeds Crown Court heard more then 6,000 of the images and movies were at levels three, four and five – the most serious categories.
The images were discovered when police executed a search warrant at his home in September 2011.
Richard Butters, prosecuting, said officers also found a memory stick entitled ‘The Street’, which contained footage of children playing outside his home.
Davison was arrested and admitted to getting a “buzz” from filming the youngsters.
The court heard the youngsters in the footage have never been identified.
Davison, of Union Road, Liversedge, pleaded guilty to 21 charges of making indecent photographs of children and two of taking indecent photographs of children.
Tony Kellbrick, mitigating, said Davison had led a lonely life and had turned to pornography to “fill a void or gap left by the absence of normal human contact.” Mr Kellbrick said Davison begun by viewing adult pornography but it progressed to downloading illegal images of children.
Judge Geoffrey Marson, QC, said: “One of the aspects of this particular case is there is publicity, and in that publicity people will know that someone in their street has been photographing children and will no doubt be concerned as to whether their child was one of those that was photographed.”
Referring to the child porn images, the judge said: “No words of mine can express the distress and degradation brought upon those children.
“You have contributed to their distress and misery by downloading as you did.
“In many ways it is a sad case, but in a case where there is so many images, it is quite impossible to pass over it without imposing an immediate custodial sentence.”
