Child porn man from Clayton-le-Moors jailed

2:17pm Friday 11th April 2008

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A MAN who had 33 hours of child porn footage on computer equipment has been jailed for a year.

Gerald Allaire said someone else must have accessed his computer, possibly remotely and put the indecent images there without his knowledge.

But a jury had convicted him of 14 charges of making indecent images of children.

Allaire, 35, of Devonshire Drive, Clayton-le-Moors, was banned from working with children indefinitely and will be on the sex offenders register for ten years.

Preston Crown Court heard that computer equipment had been taken from his home and checked by police.

A total of 33 hours of child pornography was discovered with video clips of sexual activity involving young boys.

A total of a hundred and seven video clips involving indecent images were found. All of the images were stored in a folder structure of the computer.

Fifty two images were at level two in seriousness, eight at level three, forty five at level four and four images at level five, the most serious category.

Allaire was a man of previous good character.

Mr Jeffrey Samuels, defending, said: "This man was first arrested in November 2006 and has remained on bail from that day to this, almost 18 months in total."

His family spoke of him as being of great assistance to his parents who were not in the best of health, the court heard.

In passing sentence, Judge Philip Sycamore said the evidence heard by the jury was indicative of a deliberate course of action on the defendant's part.

He told Allaire: "Sentences in these cases must reflect society's aborrhence for activities of this nature."