Ex-medic admits child porn charge

A medic who escaped prison after being caught with hundreds of child porn pictures is facing jail after admitting a string of identical offences.

Former consultant radiologist Charles Bartlett, 54, pleaded guilty of 15 counts of making indecent images at Swansea Crown Court.

Bartlett, of Neyland, Pembrokeshire, also admitted one charge of possessing 553 indecent images of children.

He was convicted of almost identical charges nearly five years ago.

In November 2003 he was convicted for downloading more than 1,600 child porn images.

On Monday he admitted 15 counts of making indecent photographs of children from August 2006 to April 2007.

He also admitted one charge of possessing 553 indecent images of children, relating to July 2007.

He was given a three year rehabilitation order at Cardiff Crown Court almost five years ago.

Treatment

Part of that order included undergoing treatment for sex offenders.

He was also banned from working with children, banned from using computers without permission and put on the sex offenders register for five years.

He also lost his job as full-time consultant radiologist at West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen.

When he was sentenced in 2003 Bartlett's lawyer successfully argued that work pressure linked to depression had "disinhibited" a persistent interest in pornography.

One year later he was suspended from practising medicine for nine months following a General Medical Council hearing in Manchester.

At the time he told the GMC hearing that his offending was "completely separate to my work and I have left it behind completely."

He was released on conditional bail until a sentencing hearing at Swansea next month.

Judge Merfyn Hughes told him him: "You must understand that the fact that you get bail this afternoon means nothing with regard to whatever sentence you get when you come back."