July 2009 Community order for child porn offences A MAN faces a three-year community order and must attend a sex offenders’ programme after he was found guilty of making indecent images of children. Michael George Martin, 27, of Avon Park, Netheravon, was found guilty on four counts of making indecent images following a two-day trial in May and was sentenced at Salisbury Crown Court earlier today. Judge Keith Cutler said Martin, who has no previous convictions, had received a caution in 2004 after indecent images were discovered on his computer. During another visit in 2005, further images were found and Judge Cutler commended the work of DC Alan Norman Rogers for discovering these, and said the Thames Valley Sex Offenders Treatment Programme seemed the best option. “It does appear to those who have met you and spoken to you that there is every advantage for you to be put on that programme,” he said, “as that will reduce and, I would hope, reduce completely, the risk of you ever possessing this sort of material ever again.” He said he hoped the requirement would help Martin get a life away from the computer and lead to him never appearing before the courts again. Martin will also be the subject of a five-year sex offenders’ prevention order and will be on the sex offenders’ register for five years.