Stockport home which he shares with his wife and daughter in November 2018. They found two laptops in the living room which contained eight category A images, described as the worst kind of child abuse, 51 category B images and 2,668 category C images.
But Smith was spared jail today after Minshull Street Crown Court was told how he was working away from home and found himself 'isolated'.
This led to him downloading the pictures over a period of almost three years, the court heard.He was handed a suspended sentence and will be made to sign the sex offenders register for seven years.Prosecutor Carl Hargan told the court how police found the pictures during a search warrant at Smith's home on November 17, 2018."At his home were his wife and.
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