A PERVERT who was caught sharing disgusting indecent images of children (IIOC) has been put behind bars.
Hayes Lockett, from Runcorn, was found to have a sickening stash of depraved material depicting children in a sexualised manner.
Among the photos in the 30-year-old’s collection was media graded as ‘category A’ – the worst grading involving child rape.
Lockett was charged with three counts of making IIOC, one of possessing IIOC, one of distributing IIOC and one of possessing extreme pornographic images involving animals.
He pleaded guilty to all of the offences, and he appeared before Chester Crown Court to be sentenced on Thursday, September 15.
Christopher Hopkins, prosecuting, explained how the making and possessing IIOC charges spanned a period of close to 15 years, between September 2006 and August last year.
On his mobile phone and a ‘computer tower’ in Runcorn, he was found to be in possession of 97 indecent photographs of children.
Of these, seven were rated as category A – involving penetration and sexual gratification from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation.
A further four images were graded as category B, while the remaining 86 were classed as category C.
Police also discovered that between March 2020 and August 2021, Lockett had gathered two extreme pornographic images portraying an act of intercourse with an animal.
Court documents state that these images were ‘explicit and realistic’, as well as ‘grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character’.
The distributing IIOC charge was over a period of just under a month from July to August 2021, involving 23 category C photographs.
Taking Lockett’s guilty pleas into account, judge Michael Leeming sentenced him to 12 months in prison.
The court also ordered that the defendant abide by a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years and a sex offender registration requirement for the same length of time.
In addition, an order was also approved to deprive Lockett of his mobile phone and computer tower which were seized by officers.
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