A dad-of-three said he "descended" into paedophilia after his wife died of cancer aged 29. Gareth Sumner, 39, was caught downloading child abuse images, including the rape of children, onto two devices.
Sumner was spared jail after a defence lawyer explained how the grieving widower "descended into this world". His wife Laura Pemberton, 29, from Huyton, died in June 2010, just six weeks after being told she had a rare and aggressive form of cancer.
She walked down the aisle with her partner and the dad to her three children the day before she died. Sumner appeared in the dock at Liverpool Crown Court, having admitted downloading indecent images of children when high on drink and drugs.
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