October 2010 Student used uni PC for child porn A STUDENT downloaded 39 pornographic images of children while in a computer room at the University of Worcester. Richard Brooker admitted one charge of making indecent images of children from the ages of five and over. Worcester Magistrates Court was told the images included a child wearing a bikini, and others in various states of undress. The images downloaded by the 39-year-old were all at level one, the least hardcore images, which show what prosecutor Mark Johnson described as ‘erotic posing’ but no evidence of direct sexual activity with a child. The court heard how Brooker was in the computer room at the University of Worcester on December 13 last year when he was spotted looking at a pornographic image of a child by someone else in the computer room. Mr Johnson said: “The defendant was confronted about this and the computer was shut down, taken away and analysed. “The images were of girls from five up to the ages of 13 or 14 by-in-large dressed in underwear.” Brooker, who has an educational qualification and has worked as a heath care assistant for the NHS but is now unemployed, represented himself at the hearing. He said his family were unaware of the proceedings against him. Brooker, now of Stonehouse Road, Wallasey, Merseyside, was placed under supervision for three years, ordered to attend a sexual offenders programme and to sign the sex offender’s register for five years. Magistrates ordered the destruction of the pornographic images and Brooker was told to pay £85 costs.