March 2022 Forest Hall retired takeaway worker who downloaded 6,500 indecent images walks free A pervert who downloaded thousands of indecent images and claimed his motivation was not sexual has walked free from court. Retired takeaway worker Wing Yue had made more than 6,500 child abuse images on his laptop, although all but seven had been deleted. A court heard Yue, of Woodlea, Forest Hall, North Tyneside, claimed he was just “curious” and had not viewed all of them. David Povall, prosecuting, said police went to his home on April 15 2020 and seized a Dell laptop. Yue, 63, made immediate admissions that there were indecent images on the computer. An examination found there was one category A video, 12 category B videos, one category B photograph, 14 category C videos and 6,552 category C pictures. Only the category A image and six category B images had not been deleted. Yue, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children and was sentenced to an 18-month community order with 120 hours unpaid work. He was also made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for ten years and must register as a sex offender for five years. Sentencing him at Newcastle Crown Court, Judge Robert Spragg said: “In interview you said you downloaded them because you were curious but had deleted them. In your basis of plea you say you thought after you viewed them you deleted them and they would have disappeared from your computer but they remained there.”