Port Glasgow man jailed for sickening haul of child abuse images

PORT GLASGOW MAN JAILED FOR SICKENING HAUL OF CHILD ABUSE IMAGES

A PORT Glasgow sex offender was caught with hundreds of indecent images of children while trying to ‘root out’ pictures of a relative online, a court has heard.

Noah Humphrey was jailed after confessing to downloading, possessing and distributing the horrific images at his then home in the town’s Coxon Drive.

Greenock Sheriff Court heard that the 55-year-old had claimed to a social worker that he’d initially set out to have images showing the abuse of a family member removed from the internet.

The court was told that Humphrey had been ‘horrified’ to hear of the abuse his relative had suffered and had sought to unearth the material and have it removed.

Humphrey had been ‘horrified’ to hear of the abuse suffered by his relative and had sought to find and remove such material.

He pleaded guilty to downloading, possessing, and distributing hundreds of indecent images, including several deemed to be in the most severe category A.

He also used the Telegram messaging system to share more than 100 images depicting child sexual exploitation.

The offences occurred between October 30, 2023, and February 26, 2024.

Humphrey, who now lives in Wales, was sentenced to 682 days in jail.

His name will stay on the sex offenders register for 10 years upon release.

The court noted that Humphrey had been ‘candid’ with social workers and assessed as posing a ‘low’ or ‘average’ risk of reoffending, but the sheriff believed a custodial sentence was necessary because the offences involved the serious distribution and download of explicit images.