Update: Released in September 2018. Now back living in Caia Park, Wrexham with his wife

April 2017

Judge brands Wrexham factory worker ‘unbelievably evil’ for dealing in sick child sex images

A paedophile who traded in sick pictures and movies of children and babies being abused has been branded “unbelievably evil” by a judge.

Steven Taylor from Wrexham stored and distributed some 10,000 images of the worst kind across the globe via a Russian website, Mold Crown Court heard.

The 55-year-old factory worker managed to do this despite having no internet access at his home.

The court heard he stored them on a computer tablet and mobile phone where he worked at the Oscar Mayer Foods Factory on the Wrexham Industrial Estate.

He was caught after The Met and Kent Police launched an undercover police operation and he was arrested by officers from North Wales at his home in St David’s Crescent.

Jailing him for three and a half years, Judge Rhys Rowlands ordered him to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

An indefinite sexual harm prevention order was also made.

Taylor admitted seven offences of distributing indecent images of children, making images by downloading them, possessing prohibited images of children and extreme images involving sexual acts between animals and children.

Some of the sickening images involved movies of babies as young as one.

Judge Rowlands said that he had been caught thanks to some excellent police work by the various forces involved and he said officers should be congratulated.

“From any normal person’s perspective, your behaviour was unbelievably evil. There is no other way of looking at it,” he said.

Taylor sent one officer an e-mail link to a Cloud storage zip file which gave access to 259 movie files.

He later gave the officer his Skype user name.

Undercover officers from Kent set up a false profile and received albums belonging to the defendant using a false name of Mark Love and he continued to communicate with them.

Arrested by North Wales officers in June of last year he said he was “not really up to date with internet stuff” but would use it for Facebook, horse racing and watching detective films.

He denied any sexual interest in children and said no images would be found but a forensic examination showed that he had stored images and sent them to his own devices so that he could view them.