January 2021

Paedophile was in Felinheli house where a child stayed

September 2020

Depraved Bangor paedophile’s stash of sick images so extensive police gave up counting them

A vile pervert with a collection of extreme child abuse images was today jailed for three years.

Carl Thomas Morgan’s hoard of pictures and videos was  so extreme it included pictures of someone having sex with a dead baby and the corpse of a teenager.

Morgan’s vile stash contained over 150,000 images and videos – so many that police gave up counting.

Of the 956 images that were analysed, 337 were placed in the worst category.

Many showed girls aged from newborn to 15 in “extreme distress” being raped and violently abused.

Rhys Rothwell prosecuting said analysis of the material showed Morgan’s “enjoyment of necrophilia, paedophilia and rape,” Mold Crown Court heard.

He said Morgan, 28, of Garth Road, Bangor also had an interest in familial sex abuse as well as children being abused while intoxicated or drugged.

Some images also contained animals.

Outlining the case, Mr Rothwell said it was in November 2018 that the social media site, Kik Messenger reported that users in a private group had shared a number of videos “depicting serious child abuse”.

An “indecent” 13-second clip had been shared by a user called TheTitch00 – the IP addresses of which were traced back to Morgan’s home in Cornwall and to his university address in Bangor.

Police executed a search warrant at the Bangor address and seized Morgan’s phone and laptop.

When he was arrested and questioned, he admitted being TheTitch00 and accepted he’d uploaded the image, but claimed he was part of a vigilante group searching the dark web for evidence to catch paedophiles.

Mr Rothwell said: “He said he knew what he was doing was illegal but was willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.”

But Morgan said he’d accidentally deleted all information about the vigilante group some months beforehand, the prosecution added.

Forensic analysis of the phone and laptop found more than 150,000 images.

Of the 956 that were categorised, 337 were listed as Category A.

Mr Rothwell said: “Several depict sex with corpses, one of a newborn and one of a 14-year-old girl covered in blood.”

During a second interview, Morgan denied any sexual interest in children and said he’d been “intrigued from a medical perspective” about some of the more extreme images and was “curious about human nature and its ability to participate in such behaviour”.

He pleaded guilty to seven charges including one of distributing an indecent image, three of making indecent images, one of possessing prohibited images and two of possessing extreme images.

Sentencing him to three years in jail, Judge, Timothy Petts said: “In November 2018, you shared…a disgusting video of child abuse.

“You were traced. Your computer was examined.

“It was found to be riddled with horrendous videos and images of abuse, so many that the police stopped counting.

“Everyone who searches for, downloads and shares such images plays their part in the abuse of children.”

Morgan was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order and ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life.

July 2020

Four years jail for man who ‘groomed and manipulated’ schoolgirl

A 37-year-old Gwynedd man had “groomed and manipulated” a child before sexual intercourse took place, a judge said on Thursday when he jailed the pervert for four years.

Leon Owen, of Chapel Street, Porthmadog, received a sexual harm prevention order and must register as a sex offender.

He admitted admitted penetrative sexual activity with a girl under 16.

Owen, who used to live in Barmouth, was also made the subject of an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention order and will remain on the sex offenders register for life.

Judge Nicola Jones at Caernarfon crown court told him: “Your attitude towards the offending is extremely concerning. You have a lack of victim empathy.”

Defence barrister Elen Owen said he was now in a relationship with a woman who was aware of this case.