Latest Offenders Waunfawr

Description

A registered sex offender watched images of children being abused on his phone, even though he knew monitoring software was installed on it.

Sick Pryderi Tomos, of no fixed address but formerly of Waunfawr in Gwynedd, viewed footage of girls as young as six being abused.

Tomos, 35, was jailed in 2017, after he was caught with children’s underwear in his bed and hundreds of indecent photographs and movies on his computers. He was released in October 2021 and software was installed on his mobile phone on February 16, 2022 as part of his bail conditions, prosecutor Laura Knightly told Caernarfon Crown Court today.

Despite knowing that his online activity was being tracked, Tomos still watched indecent videos online. The court was told he had accessed "numerous" videos in February showing young girls engaging in sexual activity with grown men

One video was almost an hour long and that some clips had been viewed "more than once" by Tomos. The tracking software showed Tomos had accessed indecent material on 19 separate occasions in a period that spanned just over 24 hours, Ms Knightly said.

Police arrested Tomos and seized two mobile phones. When interviewed, he claimed to have just watched porn that only featured adults.

A forensic analysis found he had watched videos featuring childre and he had also taken and saved screenshots from the footage. The images were mainly of young girls, aged between six and 15 years old, Ms Knightly said.

Defending, John Wyn Williams, said that his client "knows full well" what awaited him in court. Tomos was suffering from "identifiable mental health issues" and admitted his guilt as soon as the court allowed it.

"He is crying out for help," Mr Williams said. "From mental health services and probation, but for the time being I accept that it will have to be prison."

Imposing an extended jail term of five years and seven months, Judge Nicola Saffman said: "I have to consider the age and vulnerability of the children in these videos who were raped and abused, some as young as five and some sleeping.

"One of these videos includes a child that was raped for a period of 38 minutes. The children in these videos are real children, there are real victims here. People like you who watch these depraved videos are, in effect, part of a market whereby this rape and filming takes place."

Judge Saffman ordered that the devices seized by the police are destroyed. She reminded the court that Tomos is already listed as a sex offender for life from previous court convictions.

Description

A man had more than 4,000 images of "cartoon porn" which he claimed was almost indistinguishable from the real thing. But police were onto to Alwyn Williams and arrested him at his workplace.

Williams, 52, of Waunfawr, admitted possessing a prohibited image of a child and making an indecent photograph or pseudo photograph of a child in Category A (most serious), Category B and Category C. He was jailed for two years.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard he had already been prohibited from possessing certain images from previous offending.

But prosecutor Karl Scholtz said that officers acting on intelligence that the defendant had downloaded prohibited images went to his home on May 12 last year. They arrested him outside his workplace later that day.

His mobile phone, laptop and charger were seized. When asked about his activity, he told police in an interview that he had been typing "cartoon porn" into his laptop.

Mr Scholz said that Williams said some of the images were so realistic that "it was difficult to tell that they were simply, what he called, cartoons". The court heard Williams insisted he had "shredded" such images after use, but Mr Scholz said that wasn't true because police found 4,225 images on his laptop.

Williams told police he had been searching illicit sites for a year and he would get a "buzz" if they were subsequently shut down.

He had also accessed extreme pornography involving animals out of "curiosity". He said it was something similar to being addicted to alcohol or drugs.

Laura Knightly, defending, said it was "not a contact offence" and her client regrets what he did. He was even going to contact Internet Watch (a charity set up to minimise the availability of online sexual abuse content).

"He was fighting the good and bad sides within him," said Ms Knightly.

But the judge Her Honour Nicola Saffman told Williams that children are "tortured, raped and sexually abused" to provide indecent images, adding: "These are not victimless crimes."

She jailed the defendant for two years for making an indecent photograph or pseudo photograph of a child of Category A images, with one year and four month terms of imprisonment for doing so for Category B and C images respectively, with both terms to run concurrently.

For possessing the prohibited images, Williams got a 12-month jail term, which will also run concurrently. He also has a sexual harm prevention order, controlling his access to children among other measures, for ten years.