March 2014

Carlisle sex offender admits breaking SOPO 

A sex offender from Carlisle has been held in prison after admitting breaking a court order banning him from associating with children.

Christopher Williams, 52, of Millholme Avenue, Carlisle, pleaded guilty at the city’s Crown Court to breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order imposed on him in 2007 following a conviction for a sex offence five years earlier.

The charge stated that between January 15 and February 12 he “communicated and associated with a child under 16″ which the order prohibited.

Williams was remanded in custody for background reports and will be back in court to be sentenced on March 31.

March 2014

Convicted sex offender downloaded more than 100,000 child abuse images

A convicted sex offender who downloaded more than 100,000 indecent images of children was jailed for two years at Lincoln Crown Court.

Robert Orton was arrested in March last year after police carried out a spot check on his one-bedroomed flat and recovered computer equipment and mobile phones.

James Varley, prosecuting, said Orton told officers he only had one mobile phone and that had nothing wrong on it.

But a search revealed a second phone concealed under a pillow, a computer hard drive and a lap top computer hidden behind the bed.

Mr Varley said: “There was a huge quantity of images on the lap top and the hard drive.”

Orton was bailed but in November he was arrested again after he was spotted in Boston Library viewing pictures of young boys on a computer.

Mr Varley said: “A concerned member of the public saw that Orton was looking at pictures of boys. That person notified the police.”

Officers arrived to find Orton loading the illegal images from the library computer onto a Play Station Portable device.

Mr Varley said that in total 131,366 indecent images of children were found on computer devices and mobile phones. The majority were in the least serious category but almost 500 were in the two most serious levels. Orton also had a further 6,718 prohibited images.

Orton, 45, of Middlecott Close, Boston, admitted 12 charges of making and possessing indecent images of children on Friday. He also admitted two charges of breaching a sexual offences prevention order.

The court was told that Orton was jailed for four years back in 1996 for sex offences against young boys and in March 2011 was jailed again for possessing of indecent images.

Judge Sean Morris imposed an indefinite sexual offences prevention order banning Orton from possessing any photograph of a child.

The judge told Orton: “The public would expect me to lock you up and that is what I’m going to do. It has to be brought home to you that this is against the law.”

Jack Talbot, defending, said Orton had co-operated with the police since his arrest and pleaded guilty to the offences at the earliest opportunity.

“He is a solitary character. He is not involved in chat rooms or in distributing pictures.”

March 2014

Friar facing jail over child abuse images

A former governor of a Headington private school is facing jail after he admitted possessing more than 5,000 child abuse images.

At Southwark Crown Court yesterday, Friar Timothy Gardner, a former religious education adviser to the Catholic Education Service, admitted 10 charges of making indecent images of children.

Gardner, 41, also admitted possessing prohibited images of children.

He is a former governor of Rye St Antony, the Catholic independent school for girls, in Pullen’s Lane.

Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith adjourned sentence for reports and Gardner, of Camden, was bailed until March 31.

He was released on the condition he does not have contact with anyone under the age of 18 without supervision.

March 2014

Paedophile jailed for grooming and having sex with 13-year-old girl in Wirral park

A paedophile who groomed a 13-year-old girl before having sex with her in a Wirral park was given an extended prison sentence.

John Sadler, 21, met his victim online and chatted to her through Skype and another website before meeting up with her for outdoor sex in Wallasey and Bebington.

Sadler, of Meadowcroft Crescent, Woodchurch, denied five counts of sexual activity with a child but was found guilty after a trial at the end of January.

Simon Berkson, prosecuting, said that when he was found guilty Sadler shouted towards his victim’s family in a threatening manner, saying: “I’ll ****ing have you when I’m out.”

The court heard that the same girl had been a victim of another sex offender, 25-year-old Francis Carroll, of Summer Seat, Vauxhall, who last year was jailed for four years for similar offences and that she now suffered nightmares and her personal life had been affected.

Sadler groomed the girl over the internet before meeting her on three occasions towards the end of 2012.

As soon as he met her they had sexual relations which then continued on subsequent meetings.

Sadler, who has no previous convictions, pretended he was 16 and carried on the pretence after she queried him abut his true age.

He also admitted kissing a second girl, aged 14, and kissing her and putting his hand on her leg though that matter was not proceeded with.

Judge Thomas Teague, QC, told Sadler his crimes were “highly manipulative and calculated”.

He said: “That offending in my judgement indicates you have a powerful predisposition to prey on vulnerable young girls.”

Judge Teague added that the fact that Sadler was in “total denial” about what he had done meant he represented a heightened risk to the public.

He jailed Sadler for five years and added an extended license period of another two years and ordered him to serve four months consecutively for contempt of court after his outburst.

Sadler was also given a sexual offences prevention order preventing him from contact with girls under 16 for ten years and told to sign on the sex offender’s register.

October 2013

Sex beast dad Bernard Delaney is living beside a creche

Vile paedophile Bernard Delaney, who abused his daughter and six other little girls, brazenly strolls to Mass with his loyal wife by his side.

The 72-year-old looked like he didn’t have a care in the world as he mingled with parishioners in his local church in leafy Castleknock, West Dublin, this week.

But on October 18 the former accountant was ordered to pay one of his victims €450,000 for the abuse he inflicted on her throughout her childhood.

The pensioner refused to say if he was going to cough up the money the High Court ordered he pay Sinead McCarthy Garofalo, 45.

When approached by the Irish Sunday Mirror at his upmarket home to answer questions, Delaney, who started to abuse his daughter Audrey when she was three, responded: “You must be joking.”

Delaney served only three years for the horrific abuse and was freed from Arbour Hill prison in 2011.

Upon his release, he returned to the suburb where he continues to live with his wife – close to a large creche and a primary school. Locals are horrified the pervert is back living around the corner from the local school, parish centre hall and 
childcare facilities.

One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: “It is so disturbing to think someone like him is living in the area.

“We see him going to Mass every day with his wife. It is so upsetting.”

Last week, the court heard how Ms McCarthy Garofalo’s life “was ruined” by Delaney who abused her for a decade.

Mr Justice George Birmingham said the attacks “devastated and blighted every aspect of her life”.

As a result of the sexual assaults, Ms McCarthy Garofalo found it difficult to form relationships with people and ended up binge-drinking and taking drugs.

The judge added the abuse had affected not just the victim but also her parents and children. Mr Justice Birmingham said Ms McCarthy Garofalo’s siblings are all high achievers and he believed she would have done well in life had it not for been “for the intervention of Bernard Delaney”.

Ms McCarthy Garofalo, who is from Palmerstown Wood, West Dublin, sued the pervert for abusing her on numerous times at various locations in the capital.

The attacks began in 1972 when she was four and ended 10 years later.

As a result, Ms McCarthy Garofalo has suffered from depression and alcoholism.

The court also heard she suffered from anorexia nervosa and cancer which she believes is linked to her abuse.

Ms McCarthy Garofalo was unable to attend court last Friday due to illness.

But giving evidence the day before, Ms McCarthy Garofalo said Delaney was well known and was trusted by people in her area, including her parents.

She told the court the assaults began when she was very young and stopped while in her teens.

Ms McCarthy Garofalo added her life “went off the rails” as a result. Many years later she and her fellow victims first made a formal complaint about Delaney.

Ms McCarthy Garofalo said the sex beast “stole my childhood and others as well”.

She told the court she blamed herself for what had happened to her and the attacks had made her feel worthless.

All Delaney’s victims agreed he was the last person you would suspect of carrying out such monstrous acts. One victim described him as “charming” when he first befriended her.

The pervert’s own daughter Audrey Delaney Ward was a young child when her dad first abused her and she described the attacks in her autobiography Innocent.

The abuse happened frequently, even when the family went camping in France or on one of the boats Delaney owned on the Shannon River.

He was so friendly towards other young holidaymakers he became known as the “children’s entertainer”.

Speaking after his conviction in 2008, Ms Delaney Ward said: “He abused me from the age of three to around 11 or 12.

“A lot of parents left him minding children. He’s not the sort of person you’d be wary of, not at all.

“I think a couple of women felt uncomfortable around him and might have thought he was a bit of a creep and a bit touchy-feely but didn’t say anything.

“He always needed to be the centre of attention. He was arrogant and would pick on people.”

The family lived in Ballsbridge and moved to Fairview before buying a house in Castleknock.

When Audrey was around nine, she began to realise something was wrong with her father.

She said: “He drilled holes in the ceiling and spied on me through holes in the bathroom wall.

“Something dawned on me then. I was only 12 or 13. I used to get dressed under the dressing table after that.”

March 2014

Webcam pervert thought he was exposing penis to 13 year old girl – but it turned out to be an undercover cop

A pervert who was snared by undercover police trying to seduce a 13-year-old girl over a webcam is facing jail.

Alexander Kennedy, 40, had a sexually explicit conversation with the schoolgirl and exposed himself to her in August 2012.

Kennedy did not know that he was actually communicating with an undercover police officer who was recording the conversation.

He admitted attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act and attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child when he appeared at the Old Bailey today

March 2014

Portslade sex offender jailed for sexual assaults on children as young as three

A pensioner who carried out sex attacks on children as young as three over 37 years has been jailed.

Alyn Matless has been found guilty after a three-day re-trial of 21 offences including indecent assault and gross indecency with a child committed against four girls who were known to him.

His victims varied in age between 3 and 12 years old and the crimes were carried out on separate periods between 1962 and 1989 in Hove and East Sussex.

The 71-year-old from Old Shoreham Road in Portslade was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on Monday to a total of five and a half years imprisonment.

Now retired Detective Constable Martyn Milligan, who investigated the case, said; “This was a very distressing series of offences, and the victims suffered greatly over many years.

“Their willingness to come forward and support the prosecution, in which they each had to give evidence twice as there was a re-trial, contributed in large part to bringing Matless to justice.

“This is another case that shows that offenders of this type can be successfully prosecuted, even after many years.

“We encourage anyone who suffers physical or sexual abuse to come forward, no matter how long after the events.

“You will be able to speak in confidence to experienced detectives who can also arrange access to a range of counselling and other supportive facilities.”

March 2014

Child rapist caught after discovery of victim’s letter to agony aunt

A man who raped two young girls and sexually abused another two over a 20 year-period was only caught after a letter to an agony aunt written by one of his victims was found.

John Robertson was finally brought to justice by the letter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison at the High Court in Glasgow on Tuesday.

The note, which was written by one of Robertson’s rape victims but not sent to anyone, was found by a family member in 2002 who read the heartbreaking letter and called police.

The letter stated: “For the last seven years John Robertson has sexually abused me. I am ashamed and embarrassed. Can you help me?”

But it was nine years later before Robertson was charged with his crimes after other victims came forward.

Sentencing 45-year-old Robertson Judge Michael O’Grady QC said: “You have been convicted of an appalling course of conduct.

“You spent years preying on children. You abused the complainers when they were aged between eight and 15.

“Two of them were raped on seven occasions. With some of your victims you have blighted their young lives and with some you have ruined and haunted their adult lives.”

At the High Court in Glasgow Robertson denied all the charges against him and claimed his victims now women were making up lies in order to claim compensation.

Judge Michael O’Grady QC told Robertson: “You have been found guilty of an appalling course of conduct, years of preying on vulnerable young women time and again.”

The offences were committed between 1990 and 2002 at a farm in Inverclyde.

The victim, who wrote the letter is now 26 and she told advocate depute Jane Farquharson, prosecuting: “I can’t remember how many times I was raped.”

The woman added: “I thought that it kind of happened to everybody and once I realised it didn’t I thought I should have said something sooner, but I didn’t know how to stop it.”

Another victim, who was sexually abused by Robertson said that she “just froze” while he touched her inappropriately.

A further charge of rape was found not proven against Robertson.

Robertson has previous convictions for minor road traffic offences. The court heard that Robertson maintains his innocence to all charges.

July 2006

Pervert who abused young girl jailed for seven years

A PERVERT who wore surgical gloves when he carried out sex attacks on his young victim has been jailed for seven years.

Stephen Thompson, 38, would cover his hand in the thin plastic sheaths when he attacked the youngster, starting when she was just five.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how the campaign of abuse continued over three years and happened on “repeated occasions”.

Thompson denied two charges of indecent assault, but was found guilty by a jury.

Defence barrister Paul Cross told the court: “This defendant continues to deny the offences.”

Judge David Hodson yesterday sentenced Thompson, of Cirencester Street, Millfield, Sunderland, to seven years behind bars and extended his licence period by two years.

The judge banned him from ever working with children and ordered he must register as a sex offender for life.

Judge Hodson told him; “On occasions you wore surgical gloves to commit the offences, quite why is unclear to anyone.

“You still do not acknowledge you were responsible for these offences, but I am sure you appreciate this court has to be loyal to the verdict of the jury which concluded you were responsible for these offences.”

The court heard how medical evidence had backed-up the youngster’s claims.

April 2000

Killer’s gay lover is jailed for indecency

A paedophile whose prosecution evidence helped convict his former lover of a schoolboy’s murder has been jailed for ten years for sexual offences against boys.

Peter Barker (34), also known as Damien Sinclair, was told by Mr Justice Toulson: “I do not think it is possible to form any view of when you will cease to be a danger to young men.”

He imposed the maximum ten-year licence period for when Barker was released, and told him he would have to register as a sex offender when he left prison.

Barker, from Sale, Manchester, appeared for sentence at Exeter Crown Court having admitted two serious sexual offences and gross indecency in relation to a 16-year-old boy, and three indecent assaults on a 12- year-old boy.

He was also committed for sentence in respect of an act of gross indecency with the 12-year-old, and asked for three offences of indecent assault on a ten-year-old boy to be taken into consideration.

Barker – using the name Sinclair – gave evidence during the two-week Exeter Crown Court trial of his flatmate and former lover Darren Colling (30) for the claw-hammer murder in January last year of Exeter schoolboy George Mortimer, aged 16.

Barker had told the murder trial jury that Colling fantasised about kidnapping a boy, using him sexually, then killing him.

The pair had begun a homosexual relationship in jail and lived together after their release.

The judge in Colling’s trial said the pair took young men on camping trips, plying them with drink and drugs.

Colling was jailed for life last week for the killing.

September 2000

Teacher jailed for sex offences against boys

A former teacher has been jailed for 18 months for sex offences against boy pupils at schools across the country. 

Carsten Zuntz admitted charges of gross indecency and indecent assault on boys aged between 12 and 14 at schools where he taught in the Northumberland, Shropshire and Kent areas between 1986 and 1990. 

The court was told Zuntz, now of Tanhinon, Llanidloes , Wales, committed gross indecency with a 12-year-old boy who was unsettled after moving to a school in Northumberland where the defendant was a teacher. 

Newcastle Crown Court was told Zuntz’s own unhappy childhood experiences while at prep and boarding schools could have essentially led to his offending decades later. 

Zuntz (51) was jailed after he admitted, at seperate hearings before magistrates in Northumberland and Shropshire, four charges of gross indecency, one indecent assault and one of incitement to commit gross indecency. 

February 2014

Pensioner admits possession of child abuse images

Norman Montague Gold aged 64 of Ringwood Road, Ferndown admitted 14 counts of making an indecent photograph of a child.

He also admitted to a further four counts of making indecent photographs of a child.

He was committed to prison for two weeks suspended for 12 months.

He will be required to register with the police at Bournemouth for seven years and ordered to pay victim surcharge of £80. Costs of £85.

March 2014

Mother who sexually abused her young daughter, burnt her with a light bulb and hit her fingers with a hammer is jailed for six years

A mother who sexually abused her own young daughter, burning her with a light bulb, forcing her to drink salt water and hitting her fingers with a hammer has been jailed for JUST 6 years

The girl was just five-years-old when her mother’s campaign of abuse started, and was only able to escape the torment when she ran away from home at 12. 

She broke down in tears at Liverpool Crown Court today, sobbing uncontrollably as a judge told her mother that she ’robbed her of her childhood’ by her persistent abuse, and sentenced the older woman to six years and eight months in prison.

March 2014

Evil brothers John and Christopher Brook jailed for sex offences against teenage girl with low IQ

Sex offender John Brook pictured above

Perverted brothers Christopher and John Brook have been jailed for sex offences against a teenage girl in Huddersfield.

John Brook committed various sex offences against a teenage girl with low IQ then encouraged his brother to the same.

Now John Brook has been jailed for nine years and Christopher Brook for seven years.

Leeds Crown Court heard that John Brook, known as Mick, had sex with the girl although he knew she functioned at the level of an eight or nine year old.

He also took indecent pictures of her on his phone and was involved in other sex offences with her when she visited his home in Huddersfield buying her presents such as a teddy bear at car boot fairs to keep her silence.

“Her difficulties were clear to anyone,” Sharon Beattie prosecuting told the court. “He also told her he wanted others to have sex with her.”

Miss Beattie said Brook sent the pictures on his phone to another man who deleted them and did not get drawn into the activities.

However he did tell his brother Christopher Brook and on two occasions eventually he did get involved in offences before the girl mentioned to her mother what had been going on.

Sex offender Christopher Brook pictured above

John Brook, 61,of Warrenside, Deighton, admitted six charges of sexual activity with a person with a mental disorder impeding choice. In addition to the jail term he must register as a sex offender for life.

Christopher Brook, 53 of Taylor Hill Road, Lockwood, was found guilty by a jury on three similar charges. He was jailed for seven years and must also register indefinitely as a sex offender.

Judge Christopher Batty said they had taken advantage of the girl’s low intellect. At the time she had no concept what she was doing with them was wrong as it was part of her personality that she was eager to please people.

“That made her an extremely vulnerable young girl open to abuse, particularly sexual abuse.With the assistance since of those who care and look after her she has now been educated about such matters but with that has come the realisation for her of what you two put her through.”

He accepted Christopher Brook had resisted his brother’s encouragement for a time but had then succumbed and become involved in sexual contact.

Caroline Wigin, for John Brook, said he was depressed having lost his wife to cancer.

Robin Denny for Christopher Brook said he continued to deny the offences.

March 2014

Bodmin man said indecent images of young boys were ‘art’

A UNEMPLOYED Bodmin man told police he looked at indecent images of young boys because he viewed them as art.

Police raided Derek Long’s house on June 12, 2012 after a separate investigation revealed he had used his Visa card to buy a disc containing indecent images of boys.

March 2014

32-year-old Bradford man found guilty of sex with girl, 14

A 32-year-old man was today behind bars awaiting sentence this morning for a relationship with a vulnerable girl of 14 that left her pregnant and in Bradford Council care.

A jury took less than two hours yesterday afternoon to convict Abid Miskeen of sexual activity with the child over an eight-month period.

During his trial at Bradford CrownCourt, one of the girl’s relatives said Miskeen knowingly attended her 14th birthday party.

Miskeen, of Little Horton Lane, Bradford, was remanded back into custody by Judge Robert Bartfield.

Prosecutor Gerald Hendron told the jury police investigating the relationship searched for the girl and found her close to midnight with Miskeen at a house in Bradford. She was made the subject of a Police Protection Order and put into local authority care.

While living in a children’s home, she was discovered to be pregnant.

The child was aborted and Miskeen found to be the father.

He was originally also accused of abducting the girl from Bradford Council care late last year but the charge was dropped.

She went missing for 36 hours before she was found hiding in a basement after an exhaustive police search.

When the trial began last Wednesday, the girl, now 15, and some other members of her family, called as witnesses, had absconded.

She left the court building for a cigarette and she disappeared, at about the same time as other witnesses Judge Bartfield granted the Crown’s application for an arrest warrant and she spent the night in a police station. She was produced in custody to give her evidence the following day.

The judge told the court: “The complainant was an essential witness for this trial, as indeed were the other witnesses. Without her attendance, the trial would have collapsed.”

The court heard she did not want to give evidence and still had strong feelings for Miskeen.

“This was a serious allegation of sexual abuse in which the complainant had been impregnated by the defendant, who was 32,” Judge Bartfield said. “There is a strong public interest in proceeding to trial in such a case and I was not prepared to have it subverted.

“The warrants resulted in all four witnesses being present. Unhappily (the girl) spent the night in a police station and was produced in custody at court, which no judge would like to see.

“All the witnesses gave evidence and the trial proceeded. I explained the reasons for her detention and my regret that there had been no alternative.

“She appeared to understand and said she was sorry. She struck me in giving evidence as calm and clear in what she had to say.

“I believe that the interests of justice have been served despite the ‘cost’ to which I have referred.”

March 2014

Man jailed for raping schoolboy, and sexually assaulting another boy

A MAN who carried out sickening sex attacks on two schoolboys in South Tyneside has been jailed for 15 years.

Mark Tully repeatedly raped one young victim and sexually assaulted the other.

The 24-year-old had denied any inappropriate behaviour towards his victims but was found guilty by a jury after a trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

His denials meant the victims had to give evidence against him in court about what happened to them during the attacks.

Tully was convicted by the jury of two charges of rape of a child under 13 and three of sexual assault of a child under 13.

Prosecutor Gavin Doig told the court: “During police interviews he denied any sexual activity with either child, which he maintains in his probation report.”

The court heard the rape victim said he felt “ashamed and disgusted” at what Tully did to him and had kept silent about his ordeal until he confided in his mother.

The second boy told jurors he felt “sad and worried in case he got wrong” because of the sex assaults that he suffered.

Judge Penny Moreland said Tully must sign the sex offenders register, abide by a sexual offences prevention order and be barred from working with children for the rest of his life.

Judge Moreland told him: “The long-term harm and psychological damage done to those boys by your abuse cannot be underestimated, in my view.”

Tully, of Railway Gardens, Stanley, continues to deny the allegations against him, despite the jury’s verdicts.

John Wilkinson, defending, said: “In the light of the defendant having a trial there is a limit of what I can say.

“He was, until these convictions, of good character.”

March 2014

Former parish councillor admits child sex charges

A former parish councillor has pleaded guilty to six charges of sexually touching a girl aged under 13 in Helston.

Brian Deacon, from Merther Close, Sithney, admitted the offences when he appeared before Truro Crown Court last Thursday.

The six offences relate to the sexual assault of girls aged eight and ten years at Helston between 2011 and 2013.

The 69-year-old is due to return to court on March 26 for sentencing.

During this hearing he will also make a plea to a further charge, involving an allegation of rape on a child.

Deacon is a former chairman of Sithney Cornish Wrestling Club, however he no longer has anything to do with the club.

He has also sat as a Sithney parish councillor, for which he was previously representative for Police and Victim Support, together with the Cornwall Association of Local Councils (CALC).

March 2014

Homeless man had sex with missing 13 year old Derby teenager

A HOMELESS man has been jailed for four years after having sex in a tent with a missing teenage schoolgirl.

At the time, Alan Jordan was 21 and the girl was 13, although she told him she was a year older, Derby Crown Court heard.

The victim was with several other youngsters who met in Derby’s River Gardens to drink alcohol. While there, she met Jordan whom she knew as “Paddy”.

They later made contact across the internet and, in one message, she said she was “14, 15 soon”, said Andrew Vout, prosecuting.

They met in a Derby park where he was living in a tent. She sent her mother a message via Facebook to say she was staying out.

Jordan had sex with her and they went to sleep, Mr Vout told the court.

Friends then told them the girl had been declared “a missing person” but she did not return home.

“Paddy was not bothered. They had sexual intercourse on three occasions in the same manner,” Mr Vout told the court.

The girl was traced when she accompanied Jordan to an appointment with his probation officer.

“She was dirty and smelt strongly of cannabis,” Mr Vout said.

Jordan pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual touching a child under 16.

Judge Ebrahim Mooncey told him: “When you were aware she was being reported as a missing person, you didn’t care at all about that, which is very worrying indeed.

“As soon as you knew that, you should have said ‘you go home’.”

Jordan was put on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

David Outterside, speaking for Jordan, said his client’s current partner was two months pregnant and he hoped to be a good father.

“He expresses a desire to give that child the sort of start he didn’t have, when he was pushed between pillar and post in foster care and care homes,” he told the court.

Mr Outterside said Jordan, who had several previous convictions, was “terrified of the prospect” of custody.

“He didn’t realise the age of consent was 16. Nobody has ever found the time in this young man’s life to sit him down and talk about the boundaries of proper behaviour and conduct.”

In the 18 months since the offence, Jordan had stayed out of trouble, he added.

March 2014

Twisted Canterbury pervert jailed for vile haul of sex abuse images took secret pictures of young children at school

Wannabe teacher Nicholas Lorimer traded images of such sexual depravity they even shocked an experienced police officer.

The 30-year-old pervert had wormed his way into getting placements at local schools where he secretly took pictures of youngsters.

But it was when detectives raided his home in Shalloak Road, Broad Oak, Canterbury, that they discovered his sick haul of more than 7,000 images and 700 movie clips he had amassed for six years.

And among the vile pictures the twisted ex-university student had stored were 19 involving animal sex and sex acts with dead people on mortuary slabs.

Others included depraved images involving dead and mutilated children and one of a newborn baby being strangled until her face had turned blue – and others that are too shocking to report.

Judge Heather Norton at Canterbury Crown Court heard how one detective – forced to view the images to prepare the case – refused to look at them again.

Lorimer has since changed his named to John Conner and moved to High Street, Herne Bay, after details of his secret perversions were revealed.

Throughout the hearing, Lorimer – dressed in a suit – sat in the dock rubbing his face, hyperventilating and rocking up and down and seemingly oblivious to discussions between lawyers.

Even the judge became so concerned at his agitated state she gave him permission to go to the cells during the sentencing – but he continued rocking

His barrister, Mark Fraser claimed Lorimer – who admitted 16 charges of making or possessing indecent images and possessing extreme pornographic images – had suffered as a child that had led to him slashing his wrist.

He also revealed doctors had not diagnosed him suffering from Asperger syndrome until later in life, which had led to depression.

“That resulted in a spiralling and him getting an unhealthy interest in pornography,” he added.

Lorimer still managed a 2:2 degree at the University of Kent, where he also developed an interest in teaching.

He then obtained placements at Canterbury schools, where he took the secret pictures.

Mr Fraser said Lorimer was a vulnerable man who would be at risk if he was sent to prison.

Judge Norton told Lorimer: “I have been able to see the level of concern and distress from which you are suffering.”

She said Lorimer had a twisted interest in images of pre-pubescent girls aged about 12 years – and took delight in pictures depicting children in distress suffering violent attacks.

He had also joined a file-sharing website under the name LoveGun to trade his vile pictures and advise others how to access them.

And while he was attempting to train as a teacher, Lorimer also posed as a 14-year-old boy to coerce a nine-year-old girl to undress in front of a webcam.

The judge added: “It is a matter of great concern that for much of the period you collected these images you were actively seeking a career in teaching, and obtaining placements at schools.

“In 2012 – only a few months before your arrest – police found that you had been taking covert pictures while in school on your mobile phone.”

The judge told him she accepted he needed help, but added: “It is also my task to punish you and to deter others.”

As he was led away to start his two-year sentence, the judge asked staff to alert prison authorities to take precautions because of Lorimer’s vulnerable state.