September 2015 Coventry man jailed after showing workmates baby rape video on his phone Workers at an Exhall food company were horrified when one of their colleagues showed them a movie on his phone of a man sexually abusing a baby girl. Ibrahim Okolo, 31, of Cross Road, Foleshill, Coventry, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to showing an indecent image of a child, possessing an indecent image of a child and possessing an image of extreme pornography. He was jailed for two years and two months and was ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years. Jailing Okolo, in relation to the child abuse, Judge Andrew Lockhart QC told him: “It was plainly a very, very disturbing piece of video footage, and one which would have involved the grossest of abuses of a very, very young child who was effectively raped. “So upset were your colleagues that they challenged you and said you should not have it; and you said in reply ‘She’s laughing, she likes it.’” Prosecutor Andrew Wilkins said that Okolo worked for Exhall-based Handmade Speciality Products. He had obtained the mobile number of his supervisor, and sent him a video showing an act of bestiality. Then in February Okolo was in the staff changing room at the food company’s factory in Blackhorse Road, Exhall, when a colleague asked to be shown a picture of ‘a nice girl.’ The other employee was expecting to be shown a photo of Okolo’s girlfriend – but was shown a clip of child abuse. Following his arrest officers found three images which were “of concern.” Okolo said he had been sent them by someone else a month or two earlier. Simon Hunka, defending, said: “Although he appreciated the activities were illegal, he didn’t believe it was illegal to store such images. He viewed it as somewhat akin to having a video of a shooting, where the act itself would be illegal but possession of the video would not. “He puts some of it down to a cultural difference between this country and his country of origin, Sierra Leone. “He says that there, having such images on a phone is not seen as seriously as it is in this country.”