Overview
- The former Stevenage councillor and parliamentary aide was sentenced at St Albans Crown Court on Friday to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, after a guilty plea to three counts of making indecent images of children.
- He admitted possessing 77 category A images, 109 category B images, and 329 category C images and videos collected between June 2024 and March 2025.
- Police first arrested him on March 25 last year and seized his iPhone and iPad, then returned after a referral to a specialist Metropolitan Police unit following his disclosure to a colleague. Investigators later confirmed indecent images on the devices taken in the original search.
- The court ordered 25 days of rehabilitation activity and 150 hours of unpaid work, and imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years, a civil order that restricts behavior to reduce the risk of future offending.
- The Crown Prosecution Service called the material among the most disturbing and said possession fuels child abuse, while police said the charges followed a complex 10‑month investigation by the Child Online Safeguarding Team.