NOVEMBER 2002 IT technician jailed for child pornography files An IT technician who had more than 5,000 indecent images of children stored in his computer files was jailed for two and a half years at the Kingston Crown Court, on Friday. Richard Mark Emmerson who went by the nickname Pee-Pedo-Uk’ used the Internet via Internet relay chat to offer others access to his file server where he stored indecent images of children. The 22-year-old was arrested on 10 February 2002 after officers from the Obscene Publications and Internet Unit executed a search warrant under the Protection of Children Act at his Sutton home. Police seized his computer and equipment where more than 5,000 indecent images of children were found in his files. The images were of girls, from newborn to twelve years old and showed scenes of sexual abuse by adults, urination and defecation. Emmerson spent up to five hours each day distributing the images. He had also stored a large number of images on his former work’s computer network, where he was employed as an IT Technician. Emmerson last month pleaded guilty to 17 counts of distributing indecent images of children. The Judge in sentencing Emmerson added a three-year sex offender treatment order following his release from prison. The 22-year-old will be added to the sex offenders register.