January 2009 Epsom hospital guard jailed for child porn A hospital security guard has been jailed for nine months for making and possessing about 1,500 obscene pictures of young boys. Darren Mountie, 31, of Cobham, admitted to the 16 charges at Croydon Crown Court yesterday after the indecent images of boys were found on two computers at his security guard’s flat in Epsom Hospital. Shekinah Anson, prosecuting, said officers went on an unrelated matter to Woodman Lodge at the hospital, where Mountie lived in his security guard accommodation. “They found a quantity of pictures of boys aged between five and 16, showing them performing sexual acts. Two laptops were removed and analysed and found to contain images of boys,” she said. A small number of images found were of a high degree of obscenity, the court heard. Damian van Duyvenbode, defending, said Mountie, a former RAF man, had only become aware he had broken the law when told by his solicitor. He said there had been a turbulent period in his life when, after leaving the services, he met up with undesirable people and started on drugs. “He seemed to have been caught up in a life-style which allowed him to indulge in this material.” Recorder Miss Daphne Wickham said: “Police officers were not expecting to find what they did. This was revolting viewing.” Mountie was disqualified from working with children and placed on the sex offender’s register for seven years