March 2017

Yeovil paedophile downloaded 165 indecent images of children

A Yeovil man who downloaded dozens of indecent photos and movies of children said he did it as a risk-taking thrill rather than getting any sexual pleasure from it.

Experts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency traced Robert James Nunn through his computer IP address and when police went to his address they discovered indecent images of children on his laptop.

When he was interviewed he cooperated with the police and after he made a confession he was charged with the offences.

Nunn, a 39-year-old married father, of Collingwood Road, pleaded guilty that between February 10 and July 16 last year at his home address he made indecent photographs of children in the most serious category A.

He also admitted two further charges involving making indecent images of children in the other two categories B and C when he appeared before Somerset Magistrates.

District Judge David Taylor, sitting at Yeovil, was told that that the images the defendant had been charged with comprised 27 images and one video in the most serious category A; 32 images in category B and 106 images in category C and he had no previous convictions.

Stuart Sampon, prosecuting, said that as a result of a report from CEOP, which identified Nunn’s IP address, Nunn was approached by the police.

“Officers went to his address and conducted a search and seized a number of items including a laptop,” he said.

“When the defendant was interviewed he admitted he had images of children, including naked females, and had used a USB stick to store them which he had destroyed a few months earlier.

“He said he could not remember doing it but said he had often gone on websites where people shared images of children, but said he was married and heterosexual and had no interest in children.

“He accepted destroying the USB stick and admitted there were naked images of children on it and they might have been doing sex acts but denied having any access to the ‘Dark Web’.’

The case had previously been adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be prepared but the district judge said there was nothing in the case that he could find which would mitigate the potential sentence to a level dealt with in the magistrates court.

As a result he ordered that Nunn should be sent to Taunton Crown Court to be sentenced on April 21 and in the interim period released him on unconditional bail.