July 1997 Pervert jailed for child abuse images Graham Fitchie, 37, of Merstham, Surrey, was jailed for 3 years by the Guildford Crown Court in July 1997. Fitchie had 10,751 pictures, 81 films and more than 500 pages of stories about child-sex stored on computer hard disks and CD drives. A paedophile serving a six-year jail sentence led police to a pornographer who appeared to be the respectable employee of a school publishing company. The prisoner had been found with a video showing an indecent assault on a boy of 11. From his cell, he gave detectives the name of Graham Fitchie as the man who had filmed and taken part in the assault. According to the media the police discovered the biggest collection of Internet pornography found in Britain in Fitchie’s home. According to the prosecutio Fitchie had built up a network of other paedophiles he was distributing the pornography to. Fitchie pleaded guilty to sending obscene photographs and films via the Internet and to indecently assaulting the 11-year-old boy in the original film. He was jailed for three years after Judge John Bull told him there was “growing international revulsion” at the use of the Internet by paedophiles. The judge also stated that: I am driven to believe that you represent a serious and significant danger to young children in the future.” The court was told that for more than a year Fitchie had been distributing the pornography, most of it involving young boys. He said Fitchie’s material could be accessed by paedophiles around the world who knew a secret password. Grant Armstrong, defending, said Fitchie was “extremely well thought of by his employers” who indicated that they would readily hire him again. “He owns his own property and is regarded as an ordinary member of the community”. After the case, Det Con Alex Lynn, of Surrey police, said detectives were using Fitchie’s computer records to try to trace other paedophiles around the world.