MANSFIELD MAN CAUGHT WITH OVER 1,700 VILE CHILD ABUSE IMAGES ADMITS ADDICTION

A 31-year-old man from Mansfield has admitted to police that he has been addicted to viewing abhorrent child abuse images since his early teens. Nottinghamshire Police discovered over 1,700 disturbing files, including movies and images of children as young as three, on devices seized from his home. Among the footage were also films and photos of adults engaged in sexual acts with animals. The court heard that police analysis of his devices, including an HP laptop and a Samsung phone, revealed numerous Category A, B, and C images—some involving children as young as three and adult bestiality. Nicky Coalwood, of Langford Road, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, possession of prohibited images, and possession of extreme pornography. He has no prior convictions and admitted his offenses early. Judge James Sampson sentenced him to a three-year community order, a five-year sexual harm prevention order, and placed him on the sex offender register for five years. During sentencing, he stated: “Viewing and downloading this material is participation in the abuse of children. You have a long-standing problem which you admitted to the police. You said to them and I quote, ‘since I was a young teenager it has become an addiction. I am not proud of it, I am ashamed of it.’ It is now time to begin again, you get one chance in this do you understand? Take it.”