NEARLY 15,000 INDECENT IMAGES OF CHILDREN FOUND ON REDHILL TEACHING ASSISTANT'S COMPUTER - BUT HE AVOIDS JAIL
A former teaching assistant from Redhill who was found to have nearly 15,000 indecent images of children on his computer and phone has avoided prison.Justin Bramley appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Monday (November 13) after previously pleading guilty to three counts of making an indecent photograph and one count of possessing prohibited images of children.
The 31-year-old, who lives on Colesmead Road, was a teaching assistant at a school at the time of the offences, prosecutor Susannah Bramley told the court.
“On the April 28 of last year Surrey Police were made aware that indecent images were being downloaded to a computer from a particular website.
Enquiries revealed that the owner of the computer lived in Colesmead Road, Redhill.
The occupants of that address were the defendant and his mother.
The court heard that there were 113 indecent images of children category A, 106 indecent images of children category B, 14,449 indecent images of children category C and 253 indecent images of children category D which Bramley made himself.
The 253 category D images were cartoon pictures of indecent children.
Ms Bramley added that officers from Surrey Police attended the defendant's address in Redhill in March 2017.
“The defendant directed officers to the first floor of the address and they retrieved a black iPhone and a computer,” she said.
The two devices were taken away as part of the investigation and it was found that there were nearly 15,000 indecent images of children on the two combined.
He was sentenced to eight months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered to serve 120 hours of unpaid work, with the judge noting the harm caused to children and the potential to turn his life around through psychiatric help and ongoing education.
