A TWICE-CONVICTED paedophile has walked free from court
Jonathan Poore, 41, got a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years, for having indecent Internet images of children as young as five.
They were found on Poore’s computer at his mother’s house.
Last May, he was jailed for 60 days for molesting a nine-year-old boy in Drumnadrochit near Inverness.
Poore was chief press officer for Highlands and Islands Enterprise at the time.
Following his release, he fled to live with his mother in Kent.
He was arrested there last November for the computer offences.
Yesterday Poore, a father, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court.
The judge described the computer images as “a beastly form of activity”.
Poore had previously admitted seven charges. The court heard he had several hundred stills and film footage.
The judge said he couldn’t jail Poore for long enough to get him treatment.
Addressing Poore, he said: “Pause and think how you would feel if your children were subjected to this.”
A former acquaintance of Poore in Drumnadrochit remembered: “He helped set up a nursery and seemed to consider himself a bit of a ladies’ man.”
After yesterday’s case, the police officer who snared Poore said he should have gone to jail.
Detective Constable Gerry Lawless, of Kent CID, said: “This was the worst kind of pornography imaginable.
“People like Poore are the reason a market exists for this kind of material.”
