Businessman David Uwins jailed for child porn
A businessman has been sent to prison for downloading child pornography, including some pictures of babies.
David Uwins, 65, of Langridge, near Bath, admitted accessing 842 images of child pornography on his home computer.
Uwins was caught during an inquiry by US enforcement officers, Bristol Crown Court was told. All of the images he accessed were of children under 10.
He has been sentenced to 12 months to run concurrently on each of 21 counts of making indecent images of children.
He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years and banned from having unsupervised contact with children.
Uwins, who owns the Ace Optics camera shops in Bath and Yate, used his wife Patricia's name as a password to a website being investigated by the American authorities.
The court heard that of the 842 images, 66 were in the worst category and 245, including three movies, were in the next worst category.
He downloaded the images between 2004 and 2006.
Judge Martin Picton said: "This is not child porn, it is child abuse.
"The children involved in a number of those images were babies being abused and you paid for that privilege on three occasions.
"It increases the potential to perpetuate and encourage the abuse of more children to feed a market that is profit-driven."
BBC News