Locations
Spicers Court, St Paul's Hill, Winchester, SO22
Description
James Sharrock, 55, was given a community order in 2011 for possession of indecent images of children.
Winchester Crown Court heard that Surrey Police, the Met Police and Hampshire Constabulary had been investigating Sharrock when officers attend his address in Spicers Court on July 24, last year.
Kerry Maylin, prosecuting, said that 4,333 images were found on several of his devices, 2,069 of them were described as category A, said to be the worst type of indecent images.
The officer in the case PC Kristin McMahon said these “were some of the worst images of child abuse I’ve seen”, adding that they were “sadistic” showing “children tied up, degraded and suffering physical as well as sexual abuse”.
Some of the images also showed children that were drugged, with the age of those in the videos and pictures ranging from two months to 12-years-old.
Sharrock previously pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, three counts of distributing indecent images of children, possessing nine prohibited images of children and 638 extreme pornographic images.
Sharrock was jailed for two years and must be on the sex offender’s register for 10 years.