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Reported to be working in the jewish community of Cyprus. A 33-year-old family man who downloaded child porn from the internet was today (Mon) jailed for nine months. Heath Colwyn was arrested after police investigating a West Midlands man discovered that he had sent images to Colwyn. When police went to Colwyn's home on March 22, 2005 they seized two laptop computers and 21 floppy discs. When these were analysed officers found a total of 488 indecent images of children aged between about nine to 15 years. Geoffrey Greenwood, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court that 277 of the images were in the lowest category of such images but there were 89 in the serious category involving sex with adults. On one of the laptops they found emails showing that he had distributed images to other similar minded people in the UK. Colwyn, of Cornwall Way, Ainsdale, pleaded guilty to 26 offences of making indecent images of children and five of distributing them. His barrister, Andrew Loveridge, said that Colwyn, who has no similar previous convictions, denied his behaviour had been sexually motived. But jailing him Judge David Aubrey, QC, said he found that "difficult to accept." He pointed out that viewing such images perpetuates child abuse. Mr Loveridge said that Colwyn committed the offences because he felt isolated. His wife, with whom he has a three-year-old son, is standing by him. He pointed out that the offences committed by Colwyn, who works as an electrical engineer, happened two and a half years ago.