April 2017

Ushaw Moor man caught with vile indecent images of children

A JUDGE told a defendant he did not believe his account that he sought out and stored downloaded indecent images of children, “for investigative purposes.”

Durham Crown Court heard that was the explanation Michael David Hedley, 25, gave to police after they removed items of computer equipment from his home, when they visited armed with a search warrant.

The court was told that following a Hampshire Police tip-off, officers visited the address, in Skippers Meadow, Ushaw Moor, near Durham, on February 10, last year.