Shocking images found on pervert’s computer

POLICE found a shocking catalogue of sexual images of underage children on a man’s computer after being alerted by the concerned parents of a young girl.

The file of 174 images included 117 pictures classed as “extreme pornography” Manchester Crown Court was told.

Barrie Darby, prosecuting, said police went to Oliver Newton’s Saddleworth home after hearing of his contact with a 15-year-old girl he met on a social networking site. He has sent the girl messages and encouraged her to send him indecent pictures of herself. In one message, Newton (25), of Dacres Drive, Greenfield, outlined what he wanted to do to her.

Messages and pictures retrieved from computer and a phone seized by police was sent and received between January-March 2013, when he was 23.

Mark Fireman, defending, said he was an “isolated” young man who began looking at internet porn of a more and more extreme type.

He said Newton was deeply ashamed of what he had done and had voluntarily given up his job.

Newton pleaded guilty to inciting an underage girl into sexual activity and 22 counts of possessing indecent images.

Judge Timothy Mort told him: “You were clearly getting sexual gratification, but you did not consider that each of these youngsters were themselves victims. It is a thoroughly unhealthy interest.”

Newton was given a three-year community order including participating in a sex offenders’ programme

He will also be subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.