January 2014
Paedophile jailed after indecent images of children and animals found at Gloucester house
REGISTERED sex offender David Bolton has been jailed after being caught with child and animal pornography on his computer and iPod.
Dad-of-one David Bolton, 49, had been placed on the sex offender register in 2012 by a court in Oxford – where he then lived – after he admitted child abuse images offences.
He moved to Tredworth Road, Gloucester, to escape the “bullying” he received in Oxford after publicity about his offences.
But Bolton then relapsed into again downloading illegal images of children and animals, Gloucester Crown Court heard.
He was jailed for a year after he admitted four offences of making indecent images, three of possessing indecent images and one of possession of extreme pornography.
Prosecutor Mark Hollier said that on July 2 last year, two officers called at his home to make a routine check as he was on the sex offender register.
His computer was on and he seemed agitated about it and also about his iPod Touch. He appeared to be deleting files, Mr Hollier said.
Bolton was arrested and frankly admitted he had more illegal material on his devices.
In due course checks showed he had 1,032 indecent images of children on his computer and 115 on his iPod.
Mr Hollier said the majority of the children images were the least serious level one but on the computer there were four at level three and five at level four.
The children were girls aged between about five and 12.
On the iPod there were four level two images, seven at level three and 34 at level four. Those girls were aged four to nine.
Joe Maloney, defending, said when Bolton was sentenced in September 2012 he was ordered to attend various courses which would help him with his sexual problem.
Unfortunately those courses were not available in Gloucester when he moved so through no fault of his own he had been unable to take them.
The reason for coming to Gloucester was to escape the problems in Oxford and because his partner had associations in Gloucester, he added.
Jailing Bolton for four months for his Oxford offences and eight months consecutively for the new offences in Gloucester, Judge Tabor said: “Some of these pictures were horrific. They show little children being abused by adults in a depraved manner.
“Part of the community order you received in Oxford was to ensure you got some treatment so that you understood what causes you to want to look at these photographs and to drive home the wickedness of them.
“As a result of that order, and no doubt as a result of the publicity, you found yourself being subject to bullying in your local area and you moved to Gloucester, partly because your girlfriend had connections here.
“To commit similar offences again after you moved is very serious indeed. It is only because people like yourself look at these photos that the gangsters and bad men abuse children the way they do.”
