Doctor admits indecent images
AJUNIOR doctor has avoided jail after admitting possessing offensive images of a child and also bestiality footage on his mobile telephone.
Dr Mohsan Anwar was handed a 12-month community order and must carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.
The 28-year-old, of Mill Lodge, Llandegfan, near Menai Bridge, must also sign the Sex Offenders Register for five years and pay £170 costs.
Magistrates at Caernarfon ordered the mobile phone be forfeited and destroyed.
Bench chairman Alastair Langdon said the starting point for such offences would be one year in custody, but the court had taken into account the mitigation put forward on Anwar’s behalf.
Anwar had admitted the offences at a hearing last month and sentence was adjourned for the preparation of reports.
Prosecutor Diane Williams told the court police spoke to Anwar during an investigation into the distribution of indecent images and he had handed over his mobile phone.
The police found four indecent videos on the phone, including one of a nine-year-old boy and others involving bestiality.
Anwar told police he was in a WhatsApp group, but didn’t always view messages and insisted he would have deleted any indecent material.
But Mrs Williams said the evidence showed he had participated in online chats about the videos.
She added Anwar accepted some blame for the content which he possessed between October 2018 and the end of January last year. Had he made full admissions, he may have been given no more than a caution but the Crown Prosecution Service had decided the case should go to court.
The prosecution accepted that Dr Anwar didn’t distribute the material.
After the last hearing a spokesman for the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said Anwar was currently suspended.