August 2016 Man jailed for possessing indecent images of children A man who admitted possessing indecent images of children has been jailed. Carl Miller, 37, was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing indecent pictures of children, which were recovered in March, and a further count of possessing extreme pornographic material obtained by police in July. He was also placed on the sex offenders register. At Newport Crown Court , prosecutor Jason Howells said when police went to investigate Miller, an agricultural worker, on July 12, he was not at his registered address in Bishpool Grove, Newport . They were directed to an address in Oxford, where he was staying in a motor home, and there they confiscated a mobile phone, USB stick and a computer tower, the latter on which they found 17 indecent videos of children. Mr Howells said: “The defendant was interviewed in July, when he said he discovered the videos by accident and his curiosity got the better of him, and so he downloaded more.” Mr Howells added: “Miller said he didn’t obtain any sexual gratification from it. “When he was shown the videos at the interview, he said he did not wish to see them or hear anymore of them. He said one of them was disgusting, and he started crying and broke down.” He said Miller had admitted to watching the videos “out of curiosity”, and told police: “there’s no point in lying.” According to Mr Howells, Miller later told police: “I wish I had deleted them.” The court heard he used file sharing and cloning software for the images, but defence barrister Tracey Lloyd-Nesling argued there was no evidence to show he actively shared them with others, and that Miller deserved credit for his guilty plea, which came at the earliest possible opportunity. Sentencing, Judge Neil Bidder QC told Miller: “I am going to give you full credit for an early as possible plea, but I must protect children from the abuse that is inherent in this type of child pornography. “This is a case of very serious possession of this type of image due to its awful, disgusting nature.”