July 2013 Police find 600 indecent pictures of children on man’s laptops A PAEDOPHILE was snared by specialist online police when he tried to access a corrupted website. Stephen Dalley, 56, of Commercial Road, Gloucester admitted 13 counts of accessing pornographic images showing a sex act with a horse, explicit animation and images of children under 13. More than 600 images were found on his two laptops after police searched his home where he lives with his wife. Dalley admitted he had been viewing the material online since 2009. In his defence, Dalley claimed the breakdown of his previous marriage and difficulties with his current relationship had been contributing factors to his behaviour. He also claimed to have suffered domestic violence as a child. His Honour Judge Jamie Tabor QC spared Dalley jail. He said a nine month sentence in an open prison would not give him the treatment he needs and instead subjected him to a two year supervision order. Dalley has also been placed on the sexual offenders register for five years, given a 10 year sexual offences prevention order and told to pay £500 costs. He is banned from using a computer unless under police supervision and was also ordered to take part in a Thames Valley sexual offenders rehabilitation programme. Judge Tabor warned the programme would not be pleasant. “You will have to examine the dark corners of your mind, places where you will not want to go,” he said. “There has been a steady stream of defendants like you who have been caught looking at these kind of images for their own gratification. And there is a common theme. “Many are married, not young, but of good character. “This is wrong and this is evil, behind the camera there is a little boy or girl who has been outrageously abused. “Without people like you, there would not be a market for it.”