August 2014 Mobile phone left in taxi in Grimsby contained indecent images of children and bestiality POLICE found child abuse images and images of bestiality on a man’s mobile phone after he left it in a taxi and it was handed in by the driver, a court heard. Jeremey Fowler, 45, of Danesfield Avenue, Waltham, admitted three offences of possessing indecent photographs of children and three of possessing extreme pornography on December 2. Jeremy Evans, prosecuting, told Grimsby Crown Court that Fowler left his mobile phone in a taxi. The driver handed it in to her manager, who spotted an indecent image of a child. The police were alerted. They contacted Fowler, who thought it was the taxi firm. His then home in Stanley Street, Grimsby, was searched. The mobile found in the taxi had 320 illegal images of children and three of extreme pornography. Another phone was found to have 415 illegal images of children and eight of extreme pornography. A third phone had 17 images of children. Videos showing bestiality, involving a dog, were found. Andrew Bailey, mitigating, said Fowler had no previous convictions and the offences had already had severe consequences for him because he had lost his job. “He has fully confessed,” said Mr Bailey. Fowler was given a one-year suspended prison sentence, a two-year supervision order, including a sex offenders’ treatment programme, and an indefinite sexual offences prevention order. He must register as a sex offender.