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25/01/2011
Paedophile Porn Cop Jailed
A former policeman in the North has been jailed after admitting possessing over 600 indecent images of children.
Yesterday, Brian Wilfred Richard Connor, 46, from Knockloughrim near Magherafelt, was sentenced to six months in prison.
He had been a PSNI officer based at Cookstown PSNI and had been a police officer for 25 years - including RUC service.
His home computers were found to contain more than 600 indecent images and he pleaded guilty to 27 charges relating to the downloading indecent images of children between 2006 and 2010.
Passing sentence at Londonderry Crown Court, Judge Piers Grant said that men like him robbed children of their innocence and their childhood.
(BMcC)
Yesterday, Brian Wilfred Richard Connor, 46, from Knockloughrim near Magherafelt, was sentenced to six months in prison.
He had been a PSNI officer based at Cookstown PSNI and had been a police officer for 25 years - including RUC service.
His home computers were found to contain more than 600 indecent images and he pleaded guilty to 27 charges relating to the downloading indecent images of children between 2006 and 2010.
Passing sentence at Londonderry Crown Court, Judge Piers Grant said that men like him robbed children of their innocence and their childhood.
(BMcC)
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