Man Jailed for Child Sex Images
A man who downloaded 297 indecent images of children has been jailed after admitting child porn charges.
Roy Edward Boardman, 62, of Newtown, Powys, was on licence for a previous child indecent assault sentence when police seized his computer.
He pleaded guilty at Mold Crown Court to a total of 23 charges, including, making images on his mobile phone, and was jailed for 16 months.
He was already the subject of an order to register as a sex offender for life.
The court heard Boardman was being regularly monitored by police because of his previous conviction when they searched his home.
Officers found computers, a digital camera and a number of mobile telephones which had indecent images upon them.
The court heard that some of the images were of the worst kind imaginable.
Charges
It was stressed that Boardman had not taken indecent photographs himself, but had downloaded images off the internet and had also photographed those images himself, and had printed out some of them.
The first 16 charges he pleaded guilty to related to the possession of the indecent images of children.
In a separate case, he admitted seven charges of possessing and making a further 244 images on his mobile phone.
A further eight charges, which he denied, were not proceeded with and they were allowed to remain on the file.
The court heard that in initial police interviews Boardman had claimed he was not responsible for the images, blaming a man he said he had met on a train who he said he had allowed to stay at his home.
'Images'
Judge John Rogers QC said Boardman's previous conviction and three-and-a-half-year sentence in March 2003 for indecently assaulting youngsters was an aggravating feature of the case.
After being released from prison, Boardman must not communicate in any way with a child aged under 16 unless it is in the presence of an adult.
Gordon Hennell, defending, said his client had pleaded guilty immediately and the charges, while still serious, involved only images.
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