September 2014 Man tells of his remorse over child sexual abuse images A Stowmarket man who downloaded more than 1000 indecent images of children on his computer has walked free from court with a suspended prison sentence The indecent images were found on a laptop belonging to 48-year-old Mark Mayhew by police officers who had been tipped off that his IP address had been active in accessing child abuse material, Ipswich crown court heard Mayhew of Stowupland road, Stowmarket, admitted one offence of making indecent images of children between June 2011 to June 2013 He as given a nine month prison sentence, suspended for two years and ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work in the community He was also ordered to attend an internet sex offenders programme and to pay £100 victim surcharge Mayhew was made the subject of a five year sexual offences prevention order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years Prosecution said, of the 1,313 indecent images found, 227 were at level A, which is the highest level of indecency, 405 were level B and 583 were level C After his arrest in April this year Mayhew admitted to the offences