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Loughborough Paedophile
Posted on 14/12/2007
P. Klein
A paedophile from Loughborough who was previously given a potentially life-long jail term for downloading child pornography has had the sentence overturned at the Court of Appeal in London.
David Joy, 66, who lived in a flat on Great Central Road in Loughborough, was imprisoned in August after admitting almost a dozen counts of making or possessing indecent images of children.
His original sentence would have meant no hope of release until he persuaded a parole board he posed no danger to the public. However the Appeal Court (judges Holland, Longmore and Blake) ruled that the indefinite sentence was inappropriate and replaced it with a 12-month sentence. They said that as Joy had only accessed porn for his own use he was not a serious danger to the public.
The court had heard how police found over a thousand images on Joys computer when they searched his home in January 2006. Some of these images featured sado-masochism, torture or bestiality.
He ruled that even though Joy had been involved with a paedophile group in the early 80s, and has prior convictions for indecency and publishing an indecent article, the indefinite sentence was unsuitable because Joy had accessed the pictures for his use alone.