Child abuse pics pervert will spend Christmas behind bars
A FORMER bar manager will spend Christmas in prison after he was jailed for downloading child abuse images.
Richard Tasker, from Huddersfield, was charged with two Category C and Category B offences on September 23 last year.
Category B involves images involving non-penetrative sexual activity and he was charged with making two photographs.
Category C includes indecent images of children not falling within categories A or B. He was charged with making eight photographs in Category C.
At Kirklees Magistrates’ Court, Tasker, of Weymouth Avenue, Oakes, was jailed for 26 weeks for each of the two charges to run concurrently. He was also told to sign the Sex Offenders Register for seven years and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order was issued to run indefinitely.
He was also ordered to pay a surcharge of £122 on his release. At his trial in October Tasker admitted using his laptop to access Pornhub. He pleaded not guilty to both charges and said that his computer must have been hacked – but the two magistrates found his claim “implausible”.
The defendant described himself as a “pansexual male” – someone who is not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender or gender identity.
During his trial, prosecutor Lauren
Hebditch said that on the morning of September 23, West Yorkshire Police officers raided the defendant’s home where he was a lodger and seized a laptop on which the offending material was found.
At the sentencing hearing, the court heard he was interviewed by the Probation Service and he “showed no remorse at any time”.
Sentencing, chairman of the bench John Webster stressed “the very young age of the children in the photographs”.