August 2013 Man had child and animal abuse images AN Exeter badminton coach has been ordered to attend a sex offender’s course after he was caught with vile child and animal abuse images on his three laptops. Darren Winsor, aged 46, had images showing adults abusing children on one of his computers and of bestiality on another, Exeter Crown Court was told. Police experts recovered the images in both live and deleted files after raiding his home in Masefield Road, Exeter. He admitted six offences of possession of indecent images of children or extreme pornography and was jailed for 12 months, suspended for two years and ordered to attend the internet sex offender’s treatment programme as part of two years supervision. Judge Francis Gilbert, QC, also ordered him to sign on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and imposed a Sexual Offences Prevention Order which restricts his internet use and requires him to make his computers available to the police for inspection. Nigel Wraith, prosecuting, said some of the images showed children having sex with adults and 77 more showed acts of bestiality between adults and animals. Emily Pitts, defending, urged the judge to give credit for admitting the offences and follow the recommendations of the probation service and send him on a treatment course. The judge told Winsor his behaviour was “disgraceful” and said the images he viewed were “deplorable”. “This is a serious matter and what you were doing amounted to disgraceful conduct,” he said. “Police searched your home and found three laptops. “They found images of bestiality and rape and indecent images of children, including babies and some showing children in sexual acts with adults. “These were extremely deplorable images. “You may say you were not touching these children and only looking at them but the reality is that someone has committed these dreadful offences against children so they can be distributed or sold to others like you.”