A pervert who tried to destroy his computer containing thousands of vile images of children, some of which were classed at level five – the most extreme type of child pornography – was jailed yesterday for eight months.
Adam Walton, 29, of Calder Crescent, Whitefield, admitted to 28 offences including possessing indecent images of children, possessing prohibited images and possessing extreme pornography and was also ordered to sign the sex offender register for ten years.
He was found with 8,573 indecent images of children were located as well as 14 prohibited images, 88 indecent videos of children and four videos containing extreme pornography.
On July 23 2012, police received information that Walton’s IP address had accessed a shared file that contained indecent images of children and executed a warrant at his flat on August 1 2012.
Several items were seized from the flat including a Toshiba laptop and as police were placing items into their car Walton lunged into the car grabbed his computer and smashed it onto the ground damaging it, but was prevented from smashing it a second time.
Detective Constable Ruth Spencer, said: “Walton had thousands of indecent images on his computer and went to extraordinary lengths to try and destroy it when he was first arrested.
“Despite his best efforts he was not successful and we were able to retrieve and forensically examine his hard drive.
“What we found was a catalogue of child abuse images that Walton had sourced from the internet.
“These images reflect a sordid and dark side of the internet that we and other enforcement agencies work tirelessly to police and when we receive information or intelligence that someone is involved in such depraved activity we will take decisive and robust action.”
The laptop was sent to GMP’s High Tech Crime Unit and the hard drive was recovered and forensically examined.
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