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A man has been sentenced to a five month imprisonment, suspended for two years for the possession of extreme porn. He was also ordered to complete an internet offenders course, and pay a £880 fine

Keith Dorrington used a work laptop to download images and videos that showed women having sex with a Great Dane, a snake and a horse. Jurors also heard of images which involved acts which could have damaged the genitals.

The images were reported to police after bosses at Ford's Dagenham dealership found unusual internet traffic on their devices. He admitted four charges of possession of images of people and animals and four counts of possession of films of people and animals.

Dorrington said:

I didn't understand that the extreme material was unlawful but I accept that it was wrong to download it.

Daniel Murgatroyd has been sentenced for possession of three extreme pornography movies and 36 still images featuring bestiality. He was given a three month prison sentence suspended for 12 months, and was made the subject of a 12 months supervision order. He must also do 200 hours of unpaid work, and pay a £500 fine.

This came to light after police raided the shared house. The court heard officers executed a search warrant following intelligence that somebody at the address was accessing images of child abuse. No prosecution was brought against one of this housemates in relation to those pictures after the images were found to be tiny thumbnail photos, but in the course of the investigation all the computers in house were searched -- and Murgatroyd's animal pornography was found.

A teenager went berserk when a judge ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the hard drive from his laptop.

The 16-year-old admitted possessing 'AN' extreme pornographic image involving sex with an animal.

He didn't react when he was made subject to a referral order but hurled abuse at District Judge Alan Jones when he made the forfeiture order.

The boy swore at the judge who ordered a police officer in court to arrest the teenager and there was a violent struggle before he was taken out of court.

When the question of forfeiture had first been raised the boy had said he wouldn't be responsible for what happened if the order was made.

A Devon man has fallen victim to the Dangerous Pictures Act.

Richard Blackmore admitted seven charges of possessing extreme pornography between October last year and February this year involving people having sex with dogs, horses, cows, ponies and other assorted live animals .

Exeter magistrates heard police searched Blackmore's home on an unconnected matter and found more than 850 still images and 18 movie files on two computers.

Blackmore, who has no previous convictions, was bailed to appear before a judge for sentencing and told he faces a prison sentence.

A man has been jailed for 18 months after being caught selling bestiality porn DVDs for the second time. The man admitted to police he dealt in porn DVDs by sending catalogues out to customers, so they could order what they wanted.

In a previous conviction he escaped prison. On that occasion, he distributed the DVDs on an agency basis for a company called Euroscan, who were based abroad.

Now, he has been jailed after pleading guilty to two charges of selling obscene DVDs and two of possessing extreme pornographic DVDs. Locking him up for 18 months, Judge Paul Sloan QC said:

5,000 DVDs depicting pornography were seized. They had been boxed-up according to category. Of those, in the region of 250 to 300 depicted bestiality.

You said you did this because you wished to provide for your family but you were aware what you were doing was both wrong and illegal. This was serious offending. It was a commercial enterprise and the fact you have previous convictions for life offending is an aggravating factor.

A former shop owner who was prosecuted for selling hardcore porn DVDs has been handed a 12-month community order and told he must complete 120 hours of unpaid work. He was also fined £560.

Nadeem Raja pleaded guilty to four charges relating to the supply of explicit material without a BBFC classification and in a place other than a licensed sex shop, as well as infringing copyright laws.

Burton Magistrates' Court heard Trading Standards staff from East Staffordshire Borough Council and Staffordshire County Council made a visit to Booze City in Derby Street on April 25 last year after a complaint was made that explicit material was being sold on the premises. Khalid Mahmood, prosecuting, said:

During this visit 36 DVDs were seized. On June 10 a sample of six was sent away and on June 18 we received a report stating that out of these six, three DVDs were genuine, however they were classified as R18, a restricted classification. They are only permitted for sale in licensed cinemas and sex shops.

In addition, the other three DVDs that had been sent away were found to be copies of the original disks, meaning that they had infringed section 114 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.

A man has been barred from the committee of an Edinburgh neighbourhood centre after he was convicted for possessing extreme pornography.

Gary Slow, previously a committee member at Bingham Community Centre, was ejected by fellow leaders at a recent annual general meeting, shortly after they were told about the conviction. Slow pleaded guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in November after unspecified prohibited material was found in his possession, but most likely animal porn.

Senior staff at the centre said they were angry that council authorities failed to inform them immediately and claimed the lack of awareness had affected their ability to do their jobs properly. They also claimed they had been gagged from disclosing details of the conviction to others because it could lead to Slow coming to harm, presumably from community members with a lynch mob mentality.

Court documents confirm Slow pleaded guilty to the offence of possessing extreme pornographic images after police were given permission to search his home in August 2012. He was issued with a community payback order and told to undertake 120 hours of unpaid work. His name was also added to the sex offenders register but later recalled after it was decided the offence did not meet the threshold at which full inclusion was necessary.

A source said:

He was there at the meeting and he was told he was barred. We told him, 'you need to leave, we cannot have you here'. I don't want to see the guy murdered... BUT ...he's walking around our community and he's a member of other voluntary groups and it's just not sitting right.

A 71-year-old man who admitted possessing almost 1,500 extreme pornographic images of bestiality has been given a three year community order that will include attendance at a community sex offender programme and only allow him to live at an address approved by his supervising officer.

Police found the images on the computer of Alfred Edge when they visited his home, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told yesterday.

Edge, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to possessing 1,460 extreme pornographic images of people involved in sexual acts with animals, and also to possessing a further 27 moving images of the same nature.

Jasvir Mann, defending, told the court: He feels absolute disgrace over these proceedings. He is thoroughly ashamed. He made a serious mistake but even at his age he has the wish and the ability to change. He does not have a computer any more and has no intention of ever having one again.

Judge John Wait told him during his sentencing: I do not regard it as being in the public interest to send you to prison at the public expense. It will be far better for you to be required to go on a programme that will address this kind of offending. This is a vile crime.

Comment: sanctimony

From Alan

I suppose sanctimony goes with appointment to the judiciary, but the learned judge's comment that this is a vile crime takes the biscuit. This is a crime magicked up out of nowhere by the Blair/Brown regime in its dying days.

An unlicensed sex shop owner has been jailed after about 1,500 porn films were seized from his business.

Donald McEwan was arrested after trading standards raids on Triple X Factor Adult Superstore on Oldham Street in Manchester last year.

Police and council officers recovered 743 DVDs in April and another 749 during a second visit in September.

The films seized were either unclassified or were classified as R18, which can only be sold in a licensed sex shop.

McEwan was handed down an eight-month sentence for the supply and possession of unclassified films when he appeared before Manchester magistrates court.

A business man who organised weekly sex parties with porn stars has been ordered to repay £15,000 of the profits or face nine months in jail.

Patrick Stewart organised orgies with porn stars. He set up a bondage area, a porn room with a wide screen television and double beds for couples to watch each other have sex and swap partners across two flats in Tower Hamlets, east London.

The orgies were advertised online as gentlemen's parties , and the women, who were from South America, Eastern Europe and Britain, were paid around £150 for four hours work. But the parties were spoilt by miserable police who raided the events. A policeman described the event as an orgy and I think that is a fair reflection of what was taking place at the premises. Around 19 customers and numerous scantily-clad women were present when Staddon was arrested at the scene.

In August last year, Stewart was handed a 14-month sentence suspended for two years and was ordered to complete 200 hours unpaid work and fines £750. Stewart set up the brothels in Fairfield Road, Bow and Fun Times in White Post Lane, Hackney Wick in 2007. He recruited Russell Staddon and Shahid Latif to run the parties on a weekly basis.

Stewart; Staddon and Latif, all admitted conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and money laundering. Last August Staddon was sentenced to 10 months, suspended for two years, and was also ordered to complete 150 hours unpaid work and fined £250. Latif received a four-month sentence, also suspended for two years, fined £275 and ordered to complete 80 hours unpaid work.

The creator of a fake swingers website defrauded more than £200,000 from people looking for casual sex.

Andrew Harris conned hundreds of victims for four years by charging them £40 to access titilating but fake profiles. The scam continued as victims thought better of exposing their sexual interests to the authorities.

Eventually a man contacted trading standards and this led to charges and conviction. The man known as TB - told Birmingham Crown Court he and his partner were surprised at the number of open-minded people on the remote island of Anglesey. Anglesey is not renowned for its swinging scene, the court heard. After exchanging a few messages with a number of contacts, the couple were blocked and ordered to pay a subscription fee to continue. They did - but the interested users suddenly disappeared without trace.

Fearing a scam, TB set up a different profile and received exactly the same messages from the same people. He contacted Birmingham Trading Standards, who followed up and verified the complaint.

Harris was jailed for 2 years and ordered to pay about £60,000 in fines and costs.

A man has fallen victim to the Dangerous Pictures Act after admitting downloading extreme pornographic images.

Brian McNiece from Derby had downloaded 119 images and 62 movies on his computer in 2011.

Handing McNiece a three-year community order at Derby Crown Court, Recorder Shaun Smith QC preached:

You're 25 years of age, with no previous convictions and in work -- and heaven knows why your inquisitiveness led you to looking at this type of depraved behaviour.

A former PA was jailed yesterday for being the madam of a despicable gang which trafficked more than 50 Hungarian women to Britain to work as sex slaves.

Victoria Brown became the logistical organiser in the gang, which made £ 20,000 a week from prostitutes in hotels, brothels and even a university halls of residence. Brown organised flights, booked hotel rooms, collected money and took victims' passports.

Women were flown to Britain on EasyJet and Wizz Air flights and forced to have sex with up to 15 men a day. Many were recruited from deprived parts of Hungary and told they would be working in the massage industry. They were put up in hotels around Gatwick, in flats across the South East and in Bristol and Norwich as well as in Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff and Glasgow.

Women were advertised on sex websites as fresh meat and threatened with exposure at home if they fled. The gang collected £ 100 an hour but kept most of the money for themselves while refusing to hand back passports until the women had paid off their debts . Defendant

Hove Crown Court heard Brown acted as loyal lieutenant to gang ringleader Mate Puskas, who was also her boyfriend and the father of her 21-month-old son. Jailing her for three years yesterday, Judge Richard Hayward told her:

It is very sad to see you in the dock. You are intelligent, you come from a respectable family, you had a good job, and you threw it all away for Mate Puskas.

Sentencing Puskas to six years in jail, the judge told him he was at the centre of the conspiracy and very much in control . Zoltan Mohacs was jailed for four years. Istvan Toth was sentenced to five years and his brother Peter -- who was described in court as a gentleman pimp because of his politeness to some of the victims -- for four years. Both are on the run after breaking bail.