April 2016
Formercop pleads guilty to making indecent images of child, and possessing extreme porn
A former police child protection officer is to appear at Truro Crown Court for sentence after pleading guilty to three pornographic offences.
Robett Branney, 69, of Treverbyn Gardens, St Austell, retired after serving 28 years as a police officer.
The offences he admitted at Truro Magistrates’ Court are that between April and August last year he was in possession of indecent images of children; between January and July last year he made an indecent photograph of a child; and on April 18 last year he was in possession of an extreme pornographic image portraying a sex act with a dog.
Alison May for the CPS told District Judge Diane Baker, Branney was a man of good character prior to these incidents.
His solicitor Chris Spencer said Branney was absolutely devastated by the situation he was in and that he had put his family in.
He was bailed until May 12 at Truro Crown Court, the Judge telling Branney he now needed to register as a sex offender.
