March 2016 Pervert jailed after boasting he wanted to kidnap and rape a boy An already convicted paedophile who texted about kidnapping and raping a boy on a smartphone app has been jailed for nearly four years. In other online conversations, Joseph David Lillie, 33, talked about delivering a child “tied and drugged” and “wrapped in a ribbon” as a present to a man in Wigan, asked where he could find a young boy he could “buy” or “rent”, and claimed he had had sex with a 12-year-old boy, said Rob Galley, prosecuting at York Crown Court. But the Leeds man he sent the kidnap and rape text to via Grindr, a mobile phone app used by people interested in homosexual sex, was so disturbed by Lillie’s texts, he contacted police. Lillie had previously served a 12-month prison sentence imposed in 2008 for having more than 200 sexual videos and pictures of children, was on the sex offenders’ register and subject to restrictions on his use of the internet under sexual offences prevention order. Jailing him for 44 months, the Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC, said: “These text messages cause me and I have no doubt, every right thinking individual, considerable alarm.” They were an indication that Lillie’s deviant behaviour was escalating. “You must understand how very close you are coming to a sentence which would mean it will be a very, very long time before you are released,” he warned. He praised the public spirited actions of the man who reported Lillie to the police, made him subject to a lifelong sexual harm prevention order banning from contacting children, staying in the same house as them, and using the internet unless monitored by police, and extended his time on the sex offenders’ register for the rest of his life. Lillie, formerly of Baker Street, York, and now of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to sending a malicious sexual text message, six charges of possessing indecent images of children and one of possessing extreme pornography. Lillie accepted he had a problem which he needed to tackle. The judge dismissed Lillie’s claim under oath that he had no memory of the online conversations because he had been high on m-Cat and “liquid Ecstasy” at the time. Police searched Lillie’s home and found 80 videos and 40 pictures showing boys as young as four being sexually abused, some when they had been drugged and some clearly in distress from what was happening to them. April 2008 Child sex abuse images man sent to prison A FINANCIAL expert whose obsession with gay porn turned into a “morbid curiosity” in child abuse has been jailed. Joseph David Lillie, 25, Googled for “pre teen hard core porn” and downloaded the results to a computer folder called Kids, said David Hall, prosecuting at York Crown Court. He already had 145,000 computer pictures and 2,000 videos of gay sex. But his legal interests descended into the perversion of watching hard-core child pornography. “It is clear that the images of that material on these discs had been deliberately sought, obtained and stored by this defendant,” said Mr Hall. Financial services analyst Lillie, of Baker Street, Clifton, York, pleaded guilty to possessing 201 child pornography images and was jailed for 12 months. He was put on the sex offenders’ register for ten years and banned from having unsupervised contact with children for ten years under a sexual offences prevention order. “He told police he had a morbid curiosity about seeing children being abused,” said Mr Hall. Police raided Lillie’s home on July 10 and found a laptop and a desktop computer, both with child pornography, and 45 CDs and DVDs that also held child sex pictures. Ninety-three of the pornographic files were of the most extreme categories of child porn; levels four and five. He told police the images on five or six of the discs had been created by a man from Doncaster in 2005 and he had a “sick compulsion” to view them from time to time. Then police discovered more of his child porn, including some in a file sharing system and some which had been downloaded on June 18, 2007, the same day as he had done a Google search for “pre teen hard core porn”. For Lillie, Nicholas Barker said he had only downloaded child porn sporadically and that he viewed his interest in the subject as a perversion of his interest in gay porn. He had not shared it with anyone. Prison would probably lead to his bankruptcy as he had “substantial” debts and would be unable to pay them while behind bars.