Bolton Crown Court after pleading guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs of children. According to prosecution barrister Victoria Lewis, 10 of the images found on Wilkinson's laptop were category A - the most serious, seven were category B, and 1,074 were category C.
Ms Lewis told the court that police first attended at Wilkinson's home in Lightwood Close, Farnworth, on November 12 2019. Officers had originally been attending to a concern for welfare call, that had been made by Wilkinson's manager, after Wilkinson had 'threatened to harm himself' and had 'indicated that he had indecent images of young girls on his laptop'.Wilkinson told police that he had taken an overdose of paracetamol in a bid to end his life and had also.
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