Terror attack victim spared jail over child abuse images

One of the victims of a London terror attack has been spared jail after he was caught with a stash of child images.

Adam Harris, 38, had hundreds of images and videos at his West Hampstead flat in north London of children being abused.

He pleaded for leniency after being stabbed twice during the London Bridge attack on June 3, in which eight people were killed and 48 injured.

Harris, of Ashington, Northumberland, previously admitted three counts of making indecent images of children.

He was charged by police five months before the atrocity and has since moved back to Northumberland to live with his mother.

He was sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years at Blackfriars Crown Court yesterday.

He was also ordered to complete a rehabilitation programme, probation supervision for two years, made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order for five years and put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.

Judge Deva Pillay said he would suspend the sentence after reading medical reports about Harris’s psychological state and his undergoing treatment.

Judith Benson, defending, said in mitigation that Harris has suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, “extreme” anxiety and depression since the attack.

Harris downloaded more than 1,000 indecent images and videos over at least a 12-month period.