January 2014
Man’s Blackberry phone found with indecent images of children
A MAN has been warned he faces prison after his Blackberry phone was found storing 156 indecent images of children on it.
Kyle Roberts who is also known as Kyle Goatley, from Trewyddfa Common in Morriston, admitted 24 different charges during a hearing at Swansea Crown Court.
He admitted six offences of distributing indecent images, 17 of making indecent images of children and one of possessing the 156 images.
Such images are ranked by the authorities from level one to five where four is most serious.
These images range up to level four, the court was told.
James Hartson, representing Roberts, said: “The court will be concerned by the nature of the images in this case.”
He said they were of children of a “very young age” and had been found on his Blackberry Messaging service.
Judge Paul Thomas described them as being of a “extremely disturbing nature”.
He told Roberts, who is aged 21, that he will be sentenced once a report has been prepared on him by the probation service.
“There’s aspects of this case I find deeply troubling and that means I suspect sentencing isn’t going to be straight forward. You must expect a prison sentence when you come back. All options remain open but you cannot rule out that I will send you to prison,” said Judge Thomas.
The judge also made him subject to a Sexual Offenders Prevention Order.
That order means he can only possess a phone or computer capable of accessing the internet if it can store a search history on it and that device has to be presented to a police officer for inspection if required.
He will be sentenced at the end of the month.
