Febuary 2009 Man sent child porn pictures to woman friend A MAN downloaded child pornography from the Internet on his mobile phone and then texted the images to a female friend, magistrates in Truro heard on Wednesday. Kevin Alexander McCorkindale, 42, pleaded guilty to 25 specimen charges covering about 300 images. Fewer than 20 of the images were sent to the woman. The court heard how, after he was arrested in September 2007, he was bailed to return to Newquay police station but went on the run for a year-and-a-half. He gave himself up in early February after an appeal on the BBC’S Crimewatch programme. Among other charges, McCorkindale, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of making indecent photographs/pseudo-photographs of a child and eight counts of distributing an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child. Pornographic images of children are graded according to their severity on a 1–5 scale, level 5 being the most serious. Simon Jones, prosecuting, said that the images covered the whole scale. Mr Jones said that the woman, who was not named for legal reasons, had come into contact with McCorkindale through her work and had befriended him. They fell out during a holiday. He said that the woman’s young child had regarded McCorkindale as “an uncle”. Mr Jones said: “The images he texted to the woman were extremely unpleasant of children and were of a pornographic nature. “After his arrest, in a prepared statement he told police he had been drunk when downloading some images from the Internet and that he had sent them to the woman to offend her.” He added that the defendant was an alcoholic, suffered from depression and had no previous convictions.