September 2017 Former Lincolnshire school teacher jailed for child abuse images offences A former Lincolnshire school teacher who downloaded hundreds of indecent images of children has been jailed for for two and a half years. Denis Bresnahan, who has more recently been working as a private tutor at a company called Matrix Tutors which he owned, also took indecent photographs of a child himself and distributed images over the internet to other paedophiles Bresnahan set up a number of fake internet accounts using false profile pictures which he used to participate in sexualised chat. Bresnahan, 67, formerly of Bourne, but now of Houghton Court, Billingborough, admitted three charges of making a total of 3,381 indecent images of children over a five year period up to January this year. He also admitted distributing and making indecent images of a child, possession of a prohibited image and possession of 131 extreme pornographic images. Recorder John Hardy described Bresnahan as “depraved”. Lisa Hardy, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court said that Bresnahan’s internet usage was brought to the attention of police and his then home in Heartsease Way, Bourne, was raided. Mrs Hardy said “When the police explained what they were there for he said he might know something of the allegations.” A computer tower, a lap top and a memory stick were all later examined and the 3,381 indecent images of children were found. These included 907 of the most serious type of which 432 were films. Mrs Hardy said Bresnahan used a variety of fake internet profiles including that of a middle-aged woman, teenaged girl, younger girls and a young boy. “Examination of his Skype account showed that he was in communication with a number of other internet users and was sharing and distributing indecent images with others. “He was arrested and interviewed. He was asked questions about his Skype accounts and sexualised chats over Skype and he made no comment.”