STOCKTON SEX OFFENDER RYAN SMITH BRANDED WORST IN POLICE REPORTS
A man who more than 4,000 images of baby and toddler sexual abuse on his mobile phone has been jailed.Ryan Lee Rowland Smith's vile and disturbing collection included 13.5 hours of video time, eight hours of which were category A, the worst grade of footage.
Specialist police officers branded the harrowing footage as some of the most disturbing they had ever been forced to witness.
The 23-year-old, of Sorrel Close, Stockton, was convicted of nine offences, including three counts of distributing indecent images of children, three counts of making indecent images of children, possessing a paedophile manual and possessing extreme pornography - including bestiality, possessing prohibited images of a child.
He was sentenced to four years in prison plus four years on extended licence when he appeared at Teesside Crown Court.
Speaking after the hearing, Constable Barnes, of Cleveland Police's Paedophile Online Investigation Team (POLIT), said: 'I have managed sex offenders and investigated sexual offences for more than ten years and Ryan Smith is, by far, the worst offender I have dealt with in relation to this type of crime.
Every minute of footage on his phone showed a baby or child suffering extreme abuse.
The horrific content he was accessing, and sharing, was very specific and mainly involved babies and toddlers.
The content was so harrowing, our team went as far as to warn defence to be cautious as this is some of the most horrific content we have been exposed to.
Smith was accessing this content, in the main depicting pain and suffering, for his own satisfaction and nothing more.
Smith's offending is abhorrent; in my eyes, he has committed the most horrendous crimes imaginable.
