Alan Paterson avoided incarceration for possessing a cache of obscene photographs of minors; nevertheless, few days after his release from prison on a suspended sentence, Alan Paterson was discovered with an additional abhorrent collection.
Alan Paterson, the disgraced paedophile mechanic, appeared in court in October for utilising a social media application to obtain 195 indecent images and severe pornography involving animals.
However, when the police visited his residence to do their initial post-sentence inspection 11 days later, they discovered that he possessed further unlawful material.
Alan Paterson lied that the only electronic storage device he had was a mobile phone but the officer found a memory stick in a first aid box near his bed which contained 1,201 indecent images, including eight hours of movies.
Judge Robert Spragg sentenced Alan Paterson, 50, of Hylton Court, Washington, to a total of 16 months behind bars with 10 years on the sex offenders’ register and 10 year sexual harm prevention order.
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