Former BT senior manager caught with child sex abuse images is sentenced at Leeds Crown Court

Police found the indecent images on paedophile Jordan Green's laptop after he was arrested at his Leeds home, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Catherine Duffy, prosecuting, said officers went to Green's address on August 4 2018 and searched the property before seizing an iphone and an Apple MacBook Pro.

Green, 35, was taken to Stainbeck Police Station in Chapel Allerton and arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images.

The MacBook Pro was examined and found to contain 11 category A still indecent images - the most serious category.

There were also four category A moving indecent images and one category B still image.

The court heard the moving images involved the abuse of a girl aged between 12 months and three years of age.

Green, who has no previous convictions, admitted two charges of making indecent images of children.

Richard Reed, mitigating, said Green was a graduate who won a three-year post graduate placement with BT, which he completed in 2018.

Mr Reed said Green was promoted to senior manager level in data analysis.

He said Green was initially suspended but then sacked from the £50,000 a year job in January of 2019.

Mr Reed said Green currently has a £23,000 a year job in computing, but that his conviction will lead to his dismissal from that job.

Mr Reed said: "He is a man who has already been punished for his activities, perhaps more than most.

"All his qualifications are in this field. He accepts the prospects of further employment are going to be limited."

Judge Robin Mairs handed Green a 16-month jail sentence, suspended for 24 months, and ordered him to take part in a sex offender treatement programme and complete 30 rehabilitation activity days.

Referring to one of the category A images, Judge Mairs told Green: "The pain of the child was discernible. That's a real child that is caused real harm and distress and the reason that happens is to fuel and to provide images for those that have the sexual desires that you do."

Green, now of Crawford Avenue, Leyland, near Preston in Lancashire, was made the subject of a ten-year sexual harm prevention order and his name will be on the sex offender register for ten years.

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