Man sentenced for child porn

A north Suffolk man who downloaded child pornography from the internet has been given a three-year community rehabilitation order.

Jonathon Horne, 34, from Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft, had pleaded guilty to 16 counts of making indecent images of a child at an earlier hearing.

Magistrates heard how Horne acquired100 indecent images of children from the internet between December 2001 and February this year.

He will placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years, and has been ordered to attend a counselling programme.

Six other men also appeared before magistrates in Ipswich on Monday on child pornography charges.

They will be sentenced next month.