November 2013 Pervert jailed for sick child web images A sex offender has been jailed for six months after officers found almost 100 indecent images of children when they raided his Buckshaw Village home. Alan Walker, 41, has been on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years following a conviction for making indecent images in 2003. But just as the order was due to expire, Walker, of Buckshaw Hall Close, Buckshaw Village, Chorley, was found to have been downloading indecent images of children. Preston Crown Court heard officers identified the home Walker shares with his elderly mother as being an address where indecent material may have been downloaded. Officers, who were acting on intelligence they had gathered, visited Walkers home and seized two laptops, an external hard drive and a USB stick. The equipment was examined and 97 indecent images of children – mostly aged under 13 – were found. Walker denied having any interest in child pornography, telling officers he had been searching for adult naturist sites. However, he later pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of indecent images ranging from level one to level four. Fiona Wise, defending, told the court Walker had lost his job and was suffering from low self esteem. His wife – who he met in an internet chatroom – was living in the Ukraine while the couple worked out visa difficulties to enable them to live together in the UK. Miss Wise said Walker had completed a programme for sex offenders while in prison following his last convictions Judge Graham Knowles, sentencing, said: “I don’t need to explain to you the harm that is done to children when they are required to pose or behave as the children I have had to look at today have been required to do. You have had all that explained to you when you were sentenced before and you had it all explained to you on the course. You know and have heard about the horror of a child growing into an adult life knowing that beyond their control around the world these images are used to feed fantasies of men who have the sexual perversion you have.”