RUNCORN MAN ALLOWED TO WALK FREE DESPITE CHILD INDECENCY IMAGES
A PERVERT who was found with a number of indecent images of children on his phone has been allowed to walk free from court.Community service will be the punishment for Dylan Lambert after the sickening photos were discovered on his mobile.
The 29-year-old denied two charges of making indecent images of children by downloading them and sole charges each of possessing indecent images of children and possessing extreme pornographic images involving children.
However, the Runcorn man was found guilty of all counts following a trial and convicted, with the defendant returning to Chester Crown Court to be sentenced.
Outlining the particulars of the offending, Jemma Gordon, prosecuting, revealed to the court that police seized Lambert’s mobile phone in the town and sent it for a forensic analysis.
This revealed the presence of nine photographs which qualified as images of children being sexually abused.
Of these, four were graded in category A – the most severe categorisation involving child rape – while the remaining five were judged to be category C.
In addition, officers found one extreme pornographic image portraying an act of intercourse involving a human and an animal.
The charge states that such image was ‘explicit and realistic’, as well as ‘grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character’.
Lambert, of Brackendale in Runcorn, was sentenced by judge Steven Everett to nine months in prison suspended for 24 months.
As part of this sentence, he must carry out 150 hours of unpaid work in and for the benefit of the community, as well as 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
In addition, he is now the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years limiting his internet and electronic device abilities, and he must sign the sex offender register for the next decade.
As well as handing him a statutory surcharge of £156, the court approved an order to deprive the defendant of his mobile phone seized by police.
