Guilty of child pornography charges

Tuesday 30th March 2010, 2:59PM BST.

Andrew Roberts arriving at the Royal Court yesterday Picture: MATTHEW HOTTON (00924118)

A FORMER honorary policeman has been convicted of downloading more than 500 indecent and graphic photographs of children on his home computers.

Andrew David Roberts looked for the most ‘disturbing’ and ‘depraved’ images in the Google search engine, as well as exchanging child porn with another email contact.

The Inferior Number of the Royal Court took less than an hour to find the 40-year-old guilty on two charges. The married father, who used special software to then delete the images, did not react when the verdict was announced.

Roberts, of Rue des Landes, St Peter, had denied breaking the Protection of Children (Jersey) Law 1994 by making 354 indecent images of children between 1 January and 20 December 2007 and making 179 indecent photographs of children between 1 January 2008 and 26 February last year.

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