April 2004 Man jailed for child porn crimes A cleaner who pleaded guilty to distributing and possessing indecent photographs of children has been jailed for eight months. Father-of-three Kevin Neal, 38, of Nelson Road, Hastings, was reported to the police by his sister. Jailing him at Lewes Crown Court, Judge Charles Kemp said the offences were so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified. Neal was put on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years. Computer disks The court heard Neal told his sister Kim Stewart that he had a new job as an AOL host, monitoring chatrooms. But she became suspicious after she rang AOL and was told he was not an employee, and a package also arrived at his home containing computer disks. The court was told she found the disks contained child porn after asking a friend to put one of them in his computer. Neal was arrested after police searched his home and seized his laptop which contained 36 images – some of children as young as seven years old. The court also heard Neal had sent some images via an e-mail chatroom to a man in Cornwall and a woman in Surrey. The court was told he had no previous convictions.