Man jailed for accessing child porn

Pace was jailed after downloading "catagory 5" child porn

A 25-year-old man has been jailed for downloading child porn from the internet.

Christian Pace, 25, from Street, Somerset, downloaded the indecent images between 1999 and 2003.

More than 500 "Catagory 5" images, the most serious type, were found on Pace's hard drive.

He pleaded guilty at a Magistrates' Court hearing in October to 19 counts of making indecent images and one of possesing indecent images.

Pace was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court to 14 months in jail and was ordered to be placed on the Sex Offenders Register.

The court heard that Pace was introduced to adult pornography by a friend at university.

Judge Paul Barlow said a message had to be sent to the people who run the websites - and added that people like Pace were making it worth their while to produce them.

Pace was arrested after his credit card and e-mail address was discovered from an American website.

The arrest was part of Avon and Somerset police's Operation Ricochet.