November 2010 Man jailed for ‘worst images’ seen by officer in five years INDECENT images found on a Duloe man’s computer were the worst a police forensic officer had seen in five years, prosecutor Iain White told Truro Crown Court. Kevin Redgrave was jailed for ten months by Deputy Circuit Judge Lester Boothman who also imposed an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order on the 62-year-old of Trenant Park, Duloe. The forensic officer reported: “I have never encountered more depraved, abusive and cruel pictures and movie files either involving indecency with children or extreme material towards women or sexual involvement with animals.” Redgrave, a man of previous good character, is barred from working with children and must sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for the next ten years. Earlier he had pleaded guilty to 14 charges relating to the years 2004 to 2009. Mr White revealed that in November of last year Redgrave took his computer to an engineer in Looe who discovered files which led to him informing the police. Arrested, Redgrave told officers: “I just look at pornography, there are 75 megabites of videos, some are legal and some are illegal. I don’t make it I just look at it.” There were 49 images of children at level one, the lowest level of seriousness, 31 at level two, 38 at level three, 142 at level four and six at level five, the most serious – a total of 266. In addition, said Mr White, there were 90 files of extreme pornography. Redgrave said he had downloaded them for free on the internet over a number of years. He denied distributing them to anyone. “I know what I did was wrong, I have no intention of being with children or anything like that, this has solely been for my own titillation, gratification and inquisitiveness,” he said. He did not appreciate that it was illegal to possess the extreme pornography. Christopher Andrews, for the defence, said that Redgrave had become obsessed with collecting images and then looking for something more revolting than he already had – “images that most right-minded people would be horrified by”. He had become a distorted connoisseur. Redgrave had never been in trouble before, he had worked for most of his life in the hotel industry, including in the United States, until bankruptcy and alcohol took their toll on him. He was now dependent on state benefits and both he and his wife were in ill health. “He was extremely honest with the police and he now fully understands that people think what he has done was disgusting,” declared Mr Andrews. “He lives in a small community, everyone knows what he has done, he is being pressed to leave the accommodation he has occupied for the past ten years and no one wants to play golf with him any more.” “Friends have disowned him and he is on medication for depression and anxiety. He still has the support of his wife, who is dependent on him for her physical and mental wellbeing, and most of his family. It is not easy for her but their relationship is strong.” In sentencing Redgrave, Judge Boothman said that aggravating features included the fact that most of the images involved children under the age of 13, and some of the movies lasted up to 25 minutes. In mitigation he took into account his guilty pleas, his ill health and age, that he had no previous convictions and a number of references spoke of his character.