May 2010 Wordsley pervert had 1,300 child porn pictures A WORDSLEY man caught with over 1,300 indecent photographs of young children has been placed under supervision for three years. The haul of sickening images ranged up to the most serious level and they included pictures of children of primary school age. When first questioned by police, Martin Griffin, aged 50, told officers his wife and daughter both had access to his computer and they were also arrested before he admitted he had downloaded the images. Rhiannon Jones, prosecuting, said a website in Croatia was hijacked for just six minutes and, in that time, it was accessed to download indecent images. On Wednesday May 12, she told Wolverhampton Crown Court that police received information some of the images had been accessed to the Marine Crescent home of Griffin, the premises were raided and his computer seized. When analysed the computer was found to contain 1,346 indecent images including 108 at level three, 141 at level four and 10 at level five – the most serious. There was clear evidence, added Miss Jones, that Griffin’s computer had been used to search for the pornographic material which involved children as young as four and five. Griffin admitted six charges of possessing indecent photographs of children and he was further ordered to register as a sex offender for five years. Judge Martin Walsh further ordered he should be the subject of a Sex Offenders Prevention Order indefinitely and told him it was not to his credit that his wife and daughter had also been arrested. Samantha Powis, defending, said Griffin, a man of previous good character, was now reconciled with his family and he was full of shame and remorse for his actions. She said the offences had cost him his good name and his self respect and maintained that at the time he had been going through some difficulties in his private life.