April 2009 Jail for pervert who ran a children’s stage school THE head of a Tamworth stage school for youngsters who downloaded ‘disgusting’ pornographic photos and movies of children from the Internet has been jailed for four months. Police began to investigate Sean Johnson – who used the name Sean Letman – following complaints from parents about his behaviour at his Majestic UK stage school, Stafford Crown Court heard. On October 10 last year, officers went to a Tamworth hotel where he had been giving drama lessons. They seized his laptop computer which contained 34 indecent photos and 23 movies, all featuring boys under the age of 12. They included images of a serious level four, showing adults having sex with boys. Mr Nick Burn, prosecuting, said Johnson claimed he got no sexual gratification from the images. But Judge Paul Glenn, sentencing Johnson at Stafford Crown Court last Friday, told the defendant that story was ‘ridiculous’. The judge branded him a ‘high risk’ of causing harm to young children. “I find your case a worrying one,” he said. “You were running a drama club aimed specifically at children, you were working with children on a regular basis. “You actively sought out these images and you downloaded them. “I don’t accept you had no sexual interest in young boys,” said the judge. Johnson, aged 27, admitted 16 charges of making indecent pseudo-photos of children and a separate offence of failing to comply with the requirements of the Sex Offenders’ Register. Mr Burn said Johnson had pleaded guilty before magistrates in Tamworth to the downloading offences in January and the court had ordered him to register as a sex offender by attending a police station within the following three days. He failed to comply, was arrested on January 31 and remanded in custody until he appeared before the crown court on February 27. Judge Peter Carr then remanded him to a hostel in Stoke-on-Trent for assessment for a community penalty, but he failed to comply with the hostel’s regulations and was re-arrested. Along with the jail sentence, Judge Glenn also banned Johnson from working with children indefinitely, made him subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for five years and ordered him to register as a sex offender with the police for the next seven years. Mr Andrew Molloy, defending, said Johnson, a graduate with no previous convictions, had a number of ‘issues’ at the hostel.