Teh One Who Knocks
02-20-2018, 01:02 PM
By Nicholas Bieber - The Daily Star
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Brian Leach ordered the toy online from China using his redundancy money, only for it to be intercepted by customs at Stansted Airport.
Cops were alerted and when they raided his home in Maidstone, Kent, discovered almost 300 indecent child abuse images.
A court heard the 62-year-old claimed he had no sexual interest in children and simply bought the “flat-chested” doll as a “bed companion”.
But jailing him today for 28 weeks, Recorder David Jeremy QC said the doll was ordered to provide Leach “an outlet” for his arousal from viewing such images.
Describing the purchase of the sex toy as “complimentary” to the images, he added: "There is an overlap in these offences as the images were designed to provide arousal and the doll was an outlet for that arousal.
"The child-like doll you imported was intended to enable you to give effect to the sexual fantasies that the images of children were intended to arouse."
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DRUNK: Leach claims he was drunk when he ordered the sex doll
Leach admitted importation of an indecent or obscene article, as well as three offences of making indecent photographs of children.
These numbered 278 images, many of which were found on his computer hard drive having been deleted.
The court heard they covered all categories of seriousness and depicted girls as young as three to five being subjected to horrific sex acts.
When he was arrested prosecutor Trevor Wright told Maidstone Crown Court he was “vague” as to why be bought the sex doll.
"He said he ordered the doll, or child sex toy, to be a companion for him,” Mr Wright said.
"He said he did originally want an adult-sized one but that (the child-sized) one would fit in his wardrobe better.
"He said because his grandchildren aged four and five came to stay at weekends he wanted something he could get into his wardrobe and hide."
Leach, a former NHS worker, told police of the indecent images he downloaded that they “looked pretty” but had deleted most of them as he knew it was wrong.
However, Leach would then go back online and search for more, the prosecutor added.
Leach, who represented himself during the hearing, said he was lonely and had low self-esteem following his marriage break-up and then moving back to Kent after living in Suffolk for 12 years.
He told the court he ordered the doll when he was drunk, adding: "I had not properly considered the impact of the size and shape of it, only that it could be stored easily.
"I hadn't realised this could be illegal. When it didn't arrive I wasn't bothered because when I was sober I had already regretted ordering it and was only annoyed at spending a lot of money on it."
Leach told the court of his offences: ”I feel ashamed and disgusted with myself. My actions have made me feel physically sick when I think of my own family who love and trust me.
"I don't want to see any images like this again. I no longer feel desire to look at any pornography at all. I wish to keep it this way."
On passing sentence, Recorder Jeremy said he had taken into account Leach's previous good character as well as the tragic deaths of two of his grandchildren.
https://i.imgur.com/RaRexzx.jpg
Brian Leach ordered the toy online from China using his redundancy money, only for it to be intercepted by customs at Stansted Airport.
Cops were alerted and when they raided his home in Maidstone, Kent, discovered almost 300 indecent child abuse images.
A court heard the 62-year-old claimed he had no sexual interest in children and simply bought the “flat-chested” doll as a “bed companion”.
But jailing him today for 28 weeks, Recorder David Jeremy QC said the doll was ordered to provide Leach “an outlet” for his arousal from viewing such images.
Describing the purchase of the sex toy as “complimentary” to the images, he added: "There is an overlap in these offences as the images were designed to provide arousal and the doll was an outlet for that arousal.
"The child-like doll you imported was intended to enable you to give effect to the sexual fantasies that the images of children were intended to arouse."
https://i.imgur.com/v8kJ7DJ.jpg
DRUNK: Leach claims he was drunk when he ordered the sex doll
Leach admitted importation of an indecent or obscene article, as well as three offences of making indecent photographs of children.
These numbered 278 images, many of which were found on his computer hard drive having been deleted.
The court heard they covered all categories of seriousness and depicted girls as young as three to five being subjected to horrific sex acts.
When he was arrested prosecutor Trevor Wright told Maidstone Crown Court he was “vague” as to why be bought the sex doll.
"He said he ordered the doll, or child sex toy, to be a companion for him,” Mr Wright said.
"He said he did originally want an adult-sized one but that (the child-sized) one would fit in his wardrobe better.
"He said because his grandchildren aged four and five came to stay at weekends he wanted something he could get into his wardrobe and hide."
Leach, a former NHS worker, told police of the indecent images he downloaded that they “looked pretty” but had deleted most of them as he knew it was wrong.
However, Leach would then go back online and search for more, the prosecutor added.
Leach, who represented himself during the hearing, said he was lonely and had low self-esteem following his marriage break-up and then moving back to Kent after living in Suffolk for 12 years.
He told the court he ordered the doll when he was drunk, adding: "I had not properly considered the impact of the size and shape of it, only that it could be stored easily.
"I hadn't realised this could be illegal. When it didn't arrive I wasn't bothered because when I was sober I had already regretted ordering it and was only annoyed at spending a lot of money on it."
Leach told the court of his offences: ”I feel ashamed and disgusted with myself. My actions have made me feel physically sick when I think of my own family who love and trust me.
"I don't want to see any images like this again. I no longer feel desire to look at any pornography at all. I wish to keep it this way."
On passing sentence, Recorder Jeremy said he had taken into account Leach's previous good character as well as the tragic deaths of two of his grandchildren.