January 2004 Family shame for sex pervert A sex pervert who claimed he accidentally downloaded hundreds of pornographic images of children from the internet was jailed for 15 months yesterday and banned for life from working with youngsters.  Haydn Smith (24) of Rosewood Court, Tamworth, pleaded guilty at Stafford Crown Court to 24 charges of making indecent pictures of children and one of possessing an indecent picture of a child.  He was also ordered to sign on to the Sex Offenders’ Register for ten years.  David Jackson, prosecuting, said Smith was arrested after the United States Postal Service investigators sent British police Smith’s credit card details after he subscribed to a company in Texas called Landslide.  ‘This case is part of Operation Ore and when the police went to his home they recovered computers and found the indecent images.  ‘He was questioned and admitted he paid for them and took part in a file sharing scheme where images were downloaded to his computer,’ said Mr Jackson.  ‘He said he was aware that the images on his computer were those of children and intended to delete them but his hard drive had crashed.’  Mr Jackson said of the 582 images downloaded 136 were at levels four and five -the most serious levels of sexual abuse.  Jeanette Williams, defending, said: ‘In the months since he was arrested it has gradually dawned upon him that he is in a very serious position indeed.  ‘He has faced this court with trepidation and is under no illusion of what can happen. He has to face up to what he has done.  ‘He feels very keenly the shame not only reflected upon him but his family as well.  ‘His family is at a loss to explain how he came to be involved in this activity.’