Man avoids jail despite having most serious type of indecent images of children
A pervert has avoided jail despite police finding some of the most serious type of indecent images of children on laptops he owned.
An investigation into Joshua Webb’s internet use was followed by a warrant executed at his home in Maypole Green Road, Colchester.
Three laptops were seized.
Ipswich Crown Court heard Webb was interviewed and initially denied downloading the images.
However, he later admitted downloading 11 still images and two films on the laptops.
The court heard the images ranged from category C, to A, the most serious.
The material involved children aged as young as five or six and teenagers.
Key words had also been used on the laptops to search for the material, the court heard.
Webb, 23, admitted three charges of making indecent images of children at a previous court hearing.
He appeared in court for sentencing on Thursday December 21
Webb is currently employed full-time as a factory operative.
Judge John Devaux told Webb the fact he had Asperger’s Syndrome shouldn’t be used as an excuse for what he did.
He added: “This case falls into category A, the most serious kind of image.”
He sentenced Webb, who had no previous convictions, to 26 weeks in prison, suspended for a year.
Webb was told the ages of the children and that one of the movies showed a girl who was upset, were aggravating factors which could have made the sentence longer.
But this was reduced due to his early guilty pleas.
The laptops will be destroyed and Webb was also given a seven-year sexual harm prevention order and ordered to pay £650 costs.
