A paedophile, who split from his shocked fiance, after specialist police raided their home and confiscated a computer containing over 1,000 sick images of children, dodged jail today.
Lee Taylor, 35, initially claimed he knew nothing about the sordid online collection or the username 'Schoolgirl Beth' but eventually confessed he had been hoarding the disturbing images for two years.
"This is the kind of case the public find disgusting and unacceptable," the Recorder of Croydon Warwick McKinnon told the shame-faced first-time offender.
"Given your obvious addiction to viewing this disgusting material I have to take the long-term view.
"You have admitted you have been engaging in this sort of conduct for two years and as a result you have lost your job and will move out of the home you shared with your fiance."
Taylor pleaded guilty at Croydon Crown Court (pictured) to ten counts relating to 1,030 stills and 21 videos of level one to five - the most serious category, which depicts the most extreme sexual abuse of children.
On June 14, last year, officers from the Metropolitan Police's Paedophile Unit, armed with a search warrant, visited the absent Taylor's home and were met by his fiance.
The defendant was informed and hurried home from work, telling police he did not know how the illegal images were downloaded onto his computer.
Judge McKinnon placed Taylor on a three-year community order, with three years supervision and participation on the Thames Valley sex offender group work programme.
"This is ingrained conduct of a highly-addictive kind," added the judge, ordering Taylor to sign the sex offenders register for five years and making a five-year Sex Offenders Prevention Order, which limits his contact with children aged under sixteen.
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