A veteran legal worker trapped by the Met's Paedophile Unit was jailed for fifteen months today for downloading over 600 indecent videos and stills of children as young as five and of adults having sex with animals.
Alan Swaby, 69, of Eastern Avenue, Ilford - who prepares wills for clients - convinced his family he was trying to find online music when the material suddenly downloaded itself onto his computer.
"They are indeed frankly truly shocking examples of abuse of young children," the Recorder of Westminster Geoffrey Rivlin QC told Swaby.
"Some of these young children were being restrained, some were obviously absolutely terrified by what was going on.
"Goodness knows how you could watch this material and gain satisfaction from it, but you did.
"There are many young children involved and their lives are bound to have been seriously effected by what was happening to them and they are entitled to be protected."
Swaby pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to making an indecent photo of a child, namely 314 moving images on July 8, last year.
He also pleaded guilty to a similar charge relating to 204 indecent still images of children and possessing extreme pornography, namely 113 images of adults having sex with live animals.
Swaby must also sign-on the sex offenders register for ten years and a seven-year sex offenders order was made banning him from unsupervised work with children, using a computer to view indecent images of children, using any devise to save images of children and he must allow police access to his home and workplace to monitor his activities.
Prosecutor Miss Usha Shergill told the court an "intelligence investigation" by police into an online file-sharing service led them to Swaby, who's home was raided on July 8, last year.
Two computers were seized and examined by specialists and the defendant confessed to officers.
"He told police he initially searched for adult pornography and then began to look at images of child pornography," explained Miss Shergill. "The youngest he had seen was aged five."
Swaby's lawyer Mr. Martin James told the judge: "He wishes to apologise to you, the courts and the police. He admits this is disgusting."
Of the 500-plus child images 45% were at the highest level of indecency.
Judge Rivlin told Swaby, whose wife is a legal secretary: "You seem to have convinced members of your family all you were doing was trying to listen to music and this came to view by some accident."
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