July 2013
Trowbridge man to be placed on sex offenders’ register
A Trowbridge man is to be put on the sex offenders’ register after admitting making obscene photographs of children as young as six.
Jose Carlos Barreiro, 43, of Church Street, pleaded guilty to 12 charges involving indecent images when he appeared at North West Wiltshire Magistrates Court in Chippenham on Thursday, July 18.
His possession of such images dated over a nine-year period from December 2002 and his computer contained two extreme pornographic images.
There were also 4,975 images and 230 pseudo photographs, the vast majority level 1 but some as severe as level 4.
Barreiro’s stash was discovered through intelligence from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, which led to a search of his property towards the end of 2011.
The case was adjourned for a report to be prepared by the probation service. Barreiro will be sentenced at court in Chippenham on Thursday, August 8.
He is bailed on the condition he has no unsupervised contact with any children aged 16 and under.
