A 38-year-old man, Liam Paul McKinnon, has been incarcerated after confessing to the creation and possession of indecent photos of children in Corby.
In July of this year, Liam Paul McKinnon, formerly of Ashley Avenue, Corby, using an internet file-sharing network to interact with someone he presumed to be an adult with a sexual interest in minors.
During the discussion, he transmitted to the other individual an inappropriate video of a child sourced online, along with explicit images of youngsters that he had personally captured.
Liam Paul McKinnon indicated a desire to exchange photographs during the conversation and acknowledged contemplating contact offending, although now deemed it “too risky.”
What he was unaware of, however, was that the adult with whom he was conversing was, in fact, a police officer.
Liam Paul McKinnon was arrested in Corby on July 18 and later charged with making indecent images of children, distributing indecent images of children, taking indecent images of children and voyeurism.
During his police interview, he became extremely volatile, making threats of violence towards officers if they didn’t stop reading out the transcript of his online conversation, and ending the interview early.
After pleading guilty to all of the offences at Northampton Crown Court on August 30, he returned to the same court last week (October 11) where he was sentenced to three years and two months in prison.
Lead investigator – Detective Constable Abi Jones from Northamptonshire Police’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Unit (OCAIU), said: “I am pleased to see Liam Paul McKinnon sent to prison and I hope it provides the people affected by his crimes with some closure, though no sentence could truly make up for how violated they will have felt having these photos taken of them.
“Liam Paul McKinnon has shown himself to be a predatory, dangerous and opportunistic offender, and shown real intent to sexually abuse young children. He is thankfully now behind bars and I hope that news reassures the public.
“All of us in the OCAIU are passionate about protecting children and we will use every available means in order to do that. We don’t just wait for the offenders to come to us, we proactively look for them as we have done here and we will continue working hard to ensure more people like Liam Paul McKinnon are brought to justice.”
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