January 2012 Sex offender in the dock POLICE found more than 1,500 indecent images of teenage girls on a St Austell man’s computer, a court has heard. After his marriage failed because he received a police caution for downloading indecent pictures of young girls, Mark Bailey formed a relationship with another woman, who knew of his problem, visiting her in the Falmouth area at weekends when her children were with their father. However, last May 42-year-old Bailey was arrested on another matter, which in fact was not proceeded with, and when they searched his home in Jadeana Court, Albert Road, St Austell, police officers found more than 1,530 indecent images of teenage girls. At Truro Crown Court on Thursday Bailey admitted 13 charges involving images in all but the most serious category. Judge Christopher Harvey Clark QC told Bailey gaining sexual satisfaction from pictures of children was an abnormality which attracted public humiliation, particularly as he had been warned in 2010 not to use his internet access for such a purpose. Bailey was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for two years and ordered to undergo 40 treatment sessions under the Internet Sexual Offenders’ Programme, likely to last two years, to comply with a Sexual Offences Prevention Order and sign the sex offenders’ register for the next ten years.