March 2009 Man jailed for possession of indecent images of children A man has been jailed for possessing thousands of indecent photos of children. Police received intelligence from an Internet chat room about Craig Haydon, 38. Officers removed his computer and found 5,998 images stored on it. Nine images were level five, the most serious category, featuring a boy of 13 and a five-year-old girl. Hull Crown Court heard that 4,753 images were level one, 540 level two, 349 level three and 347 were classed as level four. Haydon, of Newport, Gwent, who was lodging in Hull, told police it had become an obsession and said he didn’t consider himself to be a paedophile. He said he was heavily intoxicated for much of the time he was viewing the images. Mark Bury, defending, said Haydon had been diagnosed with HIV in 2006 and had still not come to terms with this. The Honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding, Judge Michael Mettyear, said courts took a very firm stance on such cases. Haydon pleaded guilty to possessing indecent photographs of children and was jailed for four months.