June 2012 Vile child porn peddler sentenced to 14 months in jail Andrew Krone from Maidstone found with thousands of indecent images on PC Sick Andrew Krone has been sentenced to an extra 14 months in jail after pleading guilty to making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children. The 39-year-old of St Philip’s Avenue, Maidstone, admitted at an earlier hearing at Maidstone Crown Court to 21 counts of possessing and distributing child porn – and one count of possessing extreme pornography. The court heard that after renting a room in Maidstone, he left before paying his rent. The landlord of the property on clearing out the room after his departure found indecent images of children and contacted Kent police. On searching Krone’s laptop and hard-drives, which had been left in his room, officers found 23,378 indecent images of children, graded between levels one and five in severity, 10 movies depicting extreme pornography and 707 indecent movies of children, graded between levels one and five in severity. Krone was later arrested in Scotland and remanded for assaulting and causing injury and permanent disfigurement to a victim and a further offence of assault and robbery. While on remand, he was brought to Maidstone by Kent Police to be arrested and answer additional offences relating to child abuse images. Krone was subsequently imprisoned for three years and four months in November 2010 for the assault and robbery offences and on Friday had an additional 14 month term added on to his existing sentence for the indecent image offences. Krone received 14 months imprisonment for the possession and distribution of indecent images of children and six months for the possession of extreme images, to run concurrently. He will have to sign on the sex offenders register for 10 years and the judge also granted a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) which will also run for 10 years and he will be disqualified from working with children. DC Nicky Griffith of the child exploitation investigation team at Kent Police said: “Krone is a dangerous individual who sought to blame other people for his activities, claiming other people had been accessing his computer. “However, by tracking his activities online, and with the assistance of a number of witnesses the truth was established – that the offences of downloading and distributing indecent images of children were entirely conducted by him. Kent Police will continue to strive to identify and bring to justice offenders wherever they are, in our attempts to stop the evil trade in these vile images of children.”