March 2015 Cattery owner viewed movies of child sex abuse A BUSINESSMAN who runs a cattery viewed indecent movies of child sex abuse and bestiality.  Emyr Williams, of Aston Hill, Queensferry, was told by a crown court judge he should appreciate that what he looked at was actually happening.  Williams, 65, who runs the cattery with his wife, admitted making and possessing indecent movie images of children and possessing an extreme image of bestiality.  Judge Niclas Parry said one movie image was of a girl aged just eight being abused by a man. “That happened to that child,” the judge said. “It happened because people are prepared to view these images.”  Others involved children being abused and vulnerable women being degraded to perform acts of bestiality.  “You need to understand that what you were viewing was actually happening,” Judge Parry told him.  Judge Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court yesterday, said the films had been viewed over many years.  He said the children were very young and although Williams had pleaded guilty, it was quite late when he did so.  However, Williams was a man of no previous convictions who had led a hard-working life.  He was fortunate to have an extremely loyal and supportive wife of many years, Judge Parry said.  The reality was that the mitigation reduced significantly the sentence of custody that he “thoroughly deserved”.  If he was imprisoned he would be released without the issues that needed to be addressed, being addressed.  Judge Parry said with the protection of children in mind, he was prepared to make a three-year community order.  He said the order would be a severe restriction of Williams’ liberty with significant and intensive intervention.  Williams was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for five years and he was made the subject of a five-year Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) which restricted his use of the internet.  He was not to delete the history of internet use and was to make his equipment available for police examination.  The SOPO also prevents him from contacting or attempting to contact children under 16.  It would have been a suspended prison sentence, the judge said, but for the fact that under that there would be a maximum of two years under which he would receive community intervention and support, while he needed a longer period of work allowed under a community order.  Williams was ordered to pay £1,000 costs.  Kim Halsall, prosecuting, said police executed a search warrant at Williams’ home at Holly House, Aston Hill, in March 2013.  Asked if he had accessed any indecent images of children, he said he had not.  Two laptops were seized and six indecent movies were found, together with an extreme movie involving a horse.  He was charged in June of last year after the computers had been analysed.  John Hedgecoe, defending, said Williams and his wife were running a business and he was his wife’s carer.  The offences which Williams admitted were very much at the bottom end of the sort of cases that came before the crown court, he said.  Mr Hedgecoe said he would be seeking a suspended sentence but when the judge indicated he had a three-year community order in mind, he said he would not mitigate any further.