Police Community Support Officer's Child Porn Stash Destroys Career Dreams

A disgraced PCSO's dreams of following the family footsteps and becoming a full-time police officer are in tatters after he was caught with a collection of child porn.

Daniel Stephen Trayling, 24, (pictured) of Elmwood Close, Wallington was arrested during a police raid on his family's suburban home, where 124 indecent images were seized.

They were stored on his desktop computer and on his Blackberry mobile phone, but despite this he fought the charges right up to his jury trial at Croydon Crown Court.

There, the Recorder of Croydon Warwick McKinnon told the first-time offender today: "I will give you credit, because the law says I must.

“You are a man of previous good character and these convictions have destroyed your prospective career of choice."

After his arrest Trayling was charged with nine counts, including one of possessing footage of a woman having sex with a dog, and the child porn images went up the Level Four – one short of the most serious.

He eventually pleaded guilty just before his trial to possessing the material on or before February 24, last year and was sentenced to a twelve month community order and must sign the sex offenders register for five years.

He was also ordered to pay £1354 costs.

Trayling was suspended by the Metropolitan Police after his arrest and resigned before a disciplinary hearing could take place.

The judge made an order restricting the defendant's internet use and told him: "You will have a specified activity requirement order which is designed to bring your thinking back to reality from errant ways you have demonstrated.

“If you breach your sentence you will face an immediate custodial sentence."