July 2015 Pervert sentenced over child abuse and bestiality images – No prison A pervert who downloaded vile child sex abuse images and extreme porn involving adults having sex with animals has avoided an immediate jail sentence. Michael Adach, of Trinity Road, Sheerness, admitted six offences of possessing indecent photos of a child and six of making indecent photos of a child in September last year. They included 114 at the highest level of seriousness and video clips. The 45-year-old also admitted possessing extreme pornographic images of a “person performing an act of intercourse with a live animal such as a horse, dogs and other farm animals”. He was sentenced to eight months imprisonment suspended for two years. He will have to attend a sex offender programme and will be on the register for 10 years. Judge Philip St John-Stevens said the images showed a large number of young and vulnerable victims. He said of Adach’s mental health problems: “It is clear you were in a different place at the time of your offending. You were self-medicating with alcohol. “That is no excuse but it gives some context. I note the steps you have taken to obtain assistance with your mental health.” May 2015 Pervert facing prison over child abuse and bestiality images A pervert is facing sentence for downloading child sex abuse images and extreme porn involving adults having sex with animals. Michael Adach, of Trinity Road, Sheerness, admitted six offences of possessing indecent photos of a child and six of making indecent photos of a child, all on September 9 last year. The 45-year-old also admitted possessing extreme pornographic images of a “person performing an act of intercourse with a live animal such as a horse, dogs and other farm animals”. Adjourning sentence at Maidstone Crown Court until after June 8 for reports, Judge Philip Statman said: “I must make it absolutely clear that as far as I am concerned offences of this kind pass the custody threshold. “The issue becomes if there is anything in the report which will indicate an alternative.” Adach will have to sign on the sex offenders’ register. Conditional bail was continued. Adach appeared in the Sheerness Times Guardian last year complaining after he was fined for leaving his motorbike in a nearby car park.