UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Paul Wright
May 5, 2016
The former deputy head of a leading independent Catholic school has been jailed for just over two-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to possessing hundreds of child porn images and the illegal drug ecstasy (MDMA). Peter Allott, 37, taught at the prestigious £15,000-a-year St Benedict’s Catholic Independent Day School in Ealing when he was targeted by officers from a child abuse unit.
His arrest in December 2015, which saw his phone and hard drive confiscated, came following intelligence that an individual had been using video conferencing facilities to share indecent images of children with others around the UK. He was found with more than 200 illegal child abuse pictures and videos in his possession.
Allott, of Marchwood Crescent in Ealing, appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court on Thursday (5 May) where he was sentenced to 33 months in prison. He had admitted three charges of possessing, showing and making indecent images of children, one charge of possessing extreme pornography and another of possession of the class A drug ecstasy at a court hearing in March.
Matt Sutton, from the National Crime Agency, said: “Every indecent image of a child is an image of a child being abused. Peter Allott had images of the worst category in his possession and it is appropriate that he is now serving a custodial sentence.
“While there is no evidence that Allott abused his position of trust at his place of work, we consider he posed a significant risk due to nature of the images he was sharing.
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