March 2017 Flintshire man found with MILLIONS of child sex abuse images jailed Police acting on intelligence searched the home of a Deeside man and found a massive collection of indecent images – Almost 3 million in total Mold Crown Court heard there were so many images that many had not been classified, but a substantial portion of them were indecent images of children. Single dad Ian George Paterson, 32, was jailed for a year, made the subject of a 10-year sexual harm prevention order, and ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for 10 years. It emerged that he had distributed some images to other paedophiles via Skype. Paterson, of Mancot Way in Mancot, admitted making by downloading and distributing images covering all three levels of indecency including young children being raped Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke told Paterson that he had come to regard the images as normal, when they clearly were not. He had found himself fully integrated in what he regarded as a community of those who viewed images of child abuse. The case was aggravated by the large number of images involved and the ages of some of the children involved, who were between six and 15. Paterson’s IP address was identified as one which was downloading indecent images and a warrant was executed at his home in November. Prosecuting barrister Claire Jones said he immediately told officers that there would be items on his laptop and showed the officers where the computer was.