School driver used child porn

School driver used child porn

A school bus company owner who downloaded 500 child pornography images from the internet has been jailed for four months.

Michael Buley, 45, of North Prospect Road, was arrested last year during the police's crackdown on paedophiles, Operation Ore.

Buley admitted paying an American web site to send him child pornography and nine specimen counts of making indecent images of children.

He will have to take part in a sex offenders programme, was ordered to sign on the sex offenders register and has been banned from working with children or living in the same house as a child.

Judge Jeremy Griggs told him: "Children are entitled to be protected from the degradation to which they are inevitably subjected when these photographs are taken."

Ann Reddrop, prosecuting, said Buley's home was raided by police because he had paid to use an American web site which had been closed down by the FBI.

She said police found 500 images and 19 video clips, of which a total of 100 showed adults having sex with children.

The court was told that Buley's bus company, Ayreville Coaches, was facing possible closure because it had lost local authority contracts since his arrest.