March 2021 Fenham businessman looked at child abuse images A married businessman viewed indecent images of children Abdulah Dickman said he accessed the illegal material while his wife and children were away. He said he initially saw the material online by accident but then admitted he sought out more due to curiosity. Officers went to his home in February last year and seized devices which contained a total of 111 indecent pictures of children and one movie. Prosecutor Claire Anderson told Newcastle Crown Court: “The children depicted were predominantly female, between the ages of five and 12.” None of the images were of the most serious category. Miss Anderson said Dickman was candid with the police and added: “He said he viewed the images while his wife and children were away and when he was lonely and bored.” Dickman, of Wingrove Avenue, Fenham, Newcastle, admitted two charges of making indecent images of children between March 2019 and February 2020. The court heard the 42-year-old has no previous convictions but was cautioned for similar offending which involved possession of 152 indecent movies in 2012. Judge Robert Adams sentenced Dickman to four months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with programme and rehabilitation requirements. Dickman must abide by a sexual harm prevention order and sign the sex offenders register for seven years and pay £425 costs. Judge Adams told him: “You were warned, effectively, once but, as you admit in the pre-sentence report, you were drawn back to it, an addiction effectively on your part.”