A
Metropolitan Police employee has been jailed for two years and eight
months after a probe into his theft of shotgun cartridges and mobile
phones also exposed his fetish for illegal porn.
Adrian
Milton, 49, had reported the 300 cartridges and two phones as
'destroyed', but the ammo was found during a police raid on his
former address.
The
disgraced property officer, of Swallowdale, South Croydon pleaded
guilty to stealing the seized evidential items from Croydon Police
Station between August 28, 2010 and March 17, 2016.
He
also pleaded guilty to five counts of possessing extreme, prohibited
and indecent images at his address on March 16, 2016.
Those
counts related to pornography involving live animals, plus 46
prohibited images of a child.
Milton
also had 446 Category A images of children; 379 Category B and 1675
Category C.
He
was arrested on March 17, 2016 at Croydon Police Station, his place
of employment after an investigation by the Directorate of
Professional Standards (DPS) into the theft of items from the
criminal exhibits store.
Milton
was arrested again for the indecent images on June 1, 2016 and
charged with all the offences on February 9, last year.
He
was suspended from duty and later dismissed.
Detective
Sergeant Andy Griffin of the DPS said: "There
is no place for dishonesty within the Metropolitan Police Service,
and those who breach either the law or the standards expected of
officers or police staff will be brought to account.
"During
the investigation we also uncovered that Milton had disgusting images
of children being abused.
“Demand
for these repugnant images fuels abuse and he has rightly been
further imprisoned for this offence."
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