Child porn son Lee Hunter follows dad to jail

A son has followed his father into prison after both of them were jailed for possessing child pornography.

Lee Hunter, 34, admitted possessing and making indecent images of children, some of who were as young as three years old, at Norwich Crown Court.

The court heard how Hunter's home in Valpy Avenue, Mile Cross, was searched by police on June 25 this year where two computers were seized which contained the graphic images.

Another computer was taken from the home with more than 5,000 indecent images on which belonged to his father Philip Hunter, who was jailed for six-months for similar offences two months ago.

Prosecuting Malcolm Robins said the two computers were seized from the home and altogether contained more than 200 indecent images of children.

There were more than 100 ?active? images and 59 ?deleted? images on Lee Hunter's PC and 11 ?active? images and five ?deleted? images on another PC in the house, believed to be in his sister's room, although it was assumed she was not aware of them.

Mr Robins said: ?Mr Hunter gave the police his hard drive when a search was carried out. Officers became concerned and searched his sister's room and seized a further computer which he admitted he had used.

?Another PC, a third, was taken from the house but this belonged to the boy's father who was jailed for a similar offence.

?Images ranged from level one, which is fairly innocuous, to level 5 which is very serious and disturbing.?

Philip Hunter, from the same address, appeared before Norwich Magistrates on October 21 and was jailed for 10 counts of making indecent images.

The court heard how Hunter recognised he had a serious problem and wanted to get help for this.

Defending, Michael Clare, said: ?He has been talking to probation and he knows he has feelings he shouldn't have. He recognises these are inappropriate. He has not put his thoughts into practice.?

Judge Paul Downes said children were being abused for these types of images to be made and because of this the offence was ?too serious? to contemplate a non-custodial sentence.

He told Hunter: ?These are offensive photographs. You must know that for them to be produced real children are being abused. As long as there are people like you looking at things like this the abuse will continue. In my view this is far too serious.?

He was sentenced to eight months in prison - and told he would serve half of this sentence - banned from ever working with children and has to sign the Sex Offenders' Register.