June 2012 Pervert, 62, is given library computer ban A 62-year-old man who was escorted out of Bridgnorth Library by police after staff saw him taking pictures of girls on a computer has been banned by a court from accessing the internet in public places. Officers visited the home of Ernest Ronald Downing after the incident on August 17 last year and arrested him after finding nearly 30 indecent images on USB sticks of children. Nine of those were taken by Downing of an unknown little girl sitting on a bridge at the Severn Valley Railway station in Bridgnorth. Some were zoomed in on her underwear, Telford Magistrates Court was told. Downing, of Cantreyn Drive, Bridgnorth, admitted three charges of making indecent photographs of children at a previous hearing and appeared at court yesterday to be sentenced. Magistrates imposed a three-year community order with a supervision requirement. Downing must also pay £85 court costs and sign on the sex offenders’ register for the next five years, while a sexual offences prevention order prevents him from accessing the internet in a library or any other public place. All of the images on the USB sticks, which will now be destroyed, were created between April 2007 and April last year. They were judged by experts to be at Level 1, the least serious category. Mr Jamie Wade, for Downing, said his client was a man of good character with no previous convictions.