London terror attack victim seeks leniency over child porn
A PROLIFIC child porn viewer who downloaded more than 1,000 images has pleaded for leniency because he was stabbed in the London Bridge terror attack.
Adam Harris, 38, was caught with the images along with more than 100 videos of children on his phone and computer.
Patricia Deighan, prosecuting, told Blackfriars Crown Court that the images “include moving images and they include very young children – a boy of 11 or 12, a girl nine or 10 and an indecent image of an infant”.
In total, the police recovered 225 category A images, 345 category B images and 719 category C images.
Neil Fitzgibbon, defending, said: “This gentleman… was stabbed twice in one of the bars where the waitress was stabbed in the back and he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder… i think one would have to step back and say this is someone, having gone through what he’s been through – irrespective of the crime – who requires a pre-sentence report.” Harris was charged five months before the London Bridge attack on June 3, when eight people died and 48 were injured.
Harris features on a Justgiving page, which has raised over £7,000. Along with the many donations to Harris are comments which call him a “legend” and a “hero”.
The court heard that Harris moved back to live with his mother after the attack, and he is prescribed antidepressants.
Julian Malins, the recorder, told him: “It may very well be that the sentencing judge will send you to prison. You must not think that because I have adjourned this case for the production of a presentence report, that because I am doing that whoever comes to sentence your case is inhibited from sending you into immediate custody.”
Harris, who is from Ashington, Northumberland, will return for sentence on Feb 2.