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11/01/2012
Man's Child Porn Hoard Worst In UK
A Belfast-man has pleaded guilty to charges including the worst hoard of child sex abuse images a UK court has ever saw.
Yesterday civil servant Barry James Shaw, 31, pleaded guilty to 28 charges of making indecent images of children many of which were too graphic to be shown in court.
Mr. Shaw also admitted in police interviews that he would have boasted online about wanting to rape and torture children and also that he wished he had of been the one to snatch Madeleine McCann back in 2007.
It was revealed that when experts analysed Shaw's computer they uncovered more category five child pornography images - the most extreme type of such images - than ever before found in a single case in the UK.
He will be sentenced next month.
(LB)
Yesterday civil servant Barry James Shaw, 31, pleaded guilty to 28 charges of making indecent images of children many of which were too graphic to be shown in court.
Mr. Shaw also admitted in police interviews that he would have boasted online about wanting to rape and torture children and also that he wished he had of been the one to snatch Madeleine McCann back in 2007.
It was revealed that when experts analysed Shaw's computer they uncovered more category five child pornography images - the most extreme type of such images - than ever before found in a single case in the UK.
He will be sentenced next month.
(LB)
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