January 2018 Lancaster man pleads guilty for indecent images of children A man has admitted having more than 1,500 indecent images of children – including some depicting injury. Jonathan Shuttleworth, 56, of Chequers Avenue, Lancaster, pleaded guilty to seven charges relating to images downloaded and stored to his computers, during a hearing before Preston Crown Court. They include 159 images of youngsters deemed category A – the most serious in law – along with 86 category B images, and 1,074 of category C, as well as several more prohibited images involving children. He admits three counts of making and one of possessing indecent images and possessing prohibited images. The offences date from 2001 to 2014. In addition he admitted possessing 38 extreme pornographic images portraying an act likely to cause serious injury and possessing four extreme images involving horses and dogs. Wearing a suit, he was permitted to stand at the back of the court, rather than in the dock, as he entered his guilty pleas to the Honorary Recorder of Preston, Judge Mark Brown. It is understood Shuttleworth used social media and blogging websites searches for images of children and pre-teen girls. When they seized his computers they found the sordid collection of images. He was first interviewed in 2015. He will appear to be sentenced on January 29.