A JUDGE has told a pervert who kept 7,000 child porn pictures that was “disgusted” by his sick collection.
Idris McKie, who offered a special password to allow internet users access to images of children being abused, was yesterday jailed for three years, as revealed on this website.
Police found that McKie, 59, of Hylton Road, Jarrow, had a vile catalogue of more than 7,000 images and movies – some of which were categorised by the courts as the most serious of their type.
He pleaded guilty to 10 charges of making indecent photographs of a child, three of possessing such images and one of distributing the material to others.
The charges relate to 6,976 pictures and 391 movies found on his computers.
At Newcastle Crown Court yesterday, McKie was jailed for three years, and was told he must register as a sex offender and abide by the terms of a sexual offences prevention order for life.
Judge Guy Whitburn, who was shown some of the images involved by a specialist detective, said: “I have seen these photographs and they are absolutely disgusting.
“Over some three to four years between 2007 and 2011 you accessed various indecent photographs on your computer and you made a copy of those indecent photographs available on the internet.
“Sharing your files with like-minded perverts is an aggravating feature of what is a very serious offence in any event.”
Jim Hope, prosecuting, told the court McKie was arrested in December 2011 as part of an operation investigating such computer crime.
He said: “The defendant came to police attention as a result of an operation run by West Midlands Police in which they discovered indecent images of children had been accessed over the internet by a user whose address was in Jarrow, the defendant’s home address.”
When police obtained a search warrant, they found illegal images on three computers belonging to McKie.
Mr Hope added: “It is clear from chat logs that he was offering a password in order to access folders on his computer.
“There had been at least 90 occasions when those files had been accessed.”
The court heard a doctor who assessed McKie does not class him as a significant risk of committing a sexual offence himself.
Vic Laffey, defending, said he has lost his family, job and home through what he has done, and added: “He is a man who has nothing left to lose except his liberty.”