A
Yorkshire prison boss responsible for protecting the public was watching extreme
pornography on his private home computer, it has been revealed.
Philip Oliver, who was based at the privately-run HMP
Doncaster, pleaded guilty to two Dangerous Pictuires pornography
charges. He admitted possessing nine extreme moving images
supposedly described as grossly offensive, disgusting and
explicit images.
The offences were discovered in June 2010, at a time when the
victim of this bollox law was the director of public protection
at the jail in Marshgate. The court heard he was of previous
good character.
He will be sentenced next month. The judge ordered a
pre-sentence report on the defendant, saying there were
matters in the court papers that reinforce the need for one,
without any indication of sentence. Previous cases of computer
pornography heard at Doncaster Crown Court have on numerous
occasions resulted in prison sentences for offenders.
Serco Civil Government, which runs HMP Doncaster, stressed
Oliver was using his home computer to commit the offences. A
spokesman said: The offences with which he has been charged
are completely unrelated to his employment.
Update: Extreme Escalation
19th November 2011. See article
from yorkshirepost.co.uk
The Doncaster prison governor who fell victim to the
Dangerous Pictures Act has been jailed for six months.
The extreme sentence was for one image and nine short films,
totalling just 6:01s, depicting bestiality. These were not
illegal when Oliver downloaded them in 2007. The images were on
his own computer and were downloaded in his own time.
He came under suspicion apparently indulging in chatroom
fantasies. Oliver invited another chatroom user to come to his
house to have sex with his wife. He also talked about having
daughters of 12 and 14 in the house, whereas in fact both his
daughters were adults and had moved out.
Prosecutor Neil Coxon told Doncaster Crown Court that police
went to Oliver's house after being alerted to something he had
said in the chatroom and seized his laptop and computer.
But the escalation to such an extreme sentence for so very
little was also related to his chatroom activities. Oliver had
downloaded Team Viewer software in May 2009, which allowed other
chatroom users to take navigate around his computer remotely.
Sentencing Oliver to six months in prison, Judge Peter Kelson
QC, said:
This is a deeply troubling case. Your
interest in these websites was on your personal computer at
home and an entirely private matter to you. But when you
installed team viewer software, you gave over control.
In doing so you rendered yourself, as a
governor of Doncaster Prison, vulnerable to blackmail. It's
not hard to imagine the potential consequences of a governor
of a prison being subject to blackmail.
The crime of possession of these extreme
pornographic images in the circumstances of this case is far
more serious that the actual act itself.
In your position of great
responsibility, giving over control of your computer to
people sharing your sexual fantasies in chatline
conversations puts the possession of these images in a
completely different category.
Thomas
Jackson has been jailed for 12 years for raping a teenager from
Carlisle.
