Locations
Fall Road, Heanor, Derbyshire, DE75
Description
A couple have been jailed after they made more than a thousand indecent images of children and shared them online.
Scott Topley was arrested after he was identified from a video found on a mobile phone, which was seized as part of an unrelated police investigation by another force.
In the video Topley was shown performing a sex act whilst viewing indecent images of children.
The address he shared with partner Gordon Phillips in Fall Road, Heanor, was searched and their devices were seized. Phillips’ device was found to contain indecent images and he was also arrested.
More than a thousand images relating to child sexual abuse were found, as well as material relating to extreme pornography and sexual abuse of their pet dog.
The men were charged on 28 May 2025.
Both men were charged with making indecent images of children, distributing indecent images of children, possessing prohibited image/s of children, and possessing extreme pornographic image/s of sex with an animal.
They admitted the offences at a hearing on 24 July and were sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on 29 January 2026.
Topley, 46, and Phillips, 41, were each jailed for 6 years and 3 months.
They were also handed fifteen-year Sexual Harm Prevention Orders, and both are required to register with police indefinitely.
Officer in the case, PC Michelle Azizi said:
“Together, Scott Topley and Gordon Phillips relished in their criminality.
“They took part in harmful online activities, viewing and sharing child and animal sexual abuse material with other like-minded individuals.
“The custodial sentence imposed on them reflects the severe gravity and abhorrent nature of their behaviour”.