Cameron Dyke, 29, of Cleethorpes, has been jailed for 44 months and given a 20 year Sexual Harm Prevention order after collecting hundreds of sickening images of children
A woman was left horrified after finding a discarded phone in her garden which was packed with a sickening trove of child abuse images.
The woman, from Cleethorpes, found a mobile phone in her garden which had no activation lock – meaning the vile files were immediately accessible.
What she found were some of the most horrific videos, including clips of babies being abused. She did the “proper and sensible thing” and took the phone to her nearest police station, said Judge Gurdial Singh at a sentencing hearing of the phone’s owner, 29-year-old Cameron Dyke. The judge told Grimsby Crown Court: “One can imagine the horror at what she saw.”
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Dyke admitted making and possession of indecent images of children and distributing them. He also admitted being in breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order imposed at Hull Magistrates’ Court in 2020. That was imposed for an offence of making and possessing extreme pornography.
The order was imposed for 10 years and required Dyke to tell police of any electronic device that had access to the internet that he obtained. Prosecuting, Maya Hanson said Humberside Police were made aware of a Snapchat account with the name “Hot Fuzz” in April last year. It had an IP address which was traced to Dyke’s mother’s address in Immingham.
When police visited his address in Brereton Avenue, Cleethorpes, in May this year they seized a laptop. He told police in interview he had only just bought the device from a shop the previous day. The following day his neighbour arrived at Birchin Way Police Station with a phone she discovered in her garden, reports Grimsby Live.
Miss Hanson said the neighbour had returned home to discover the phone in her rear garden. It immediately displayed the gallery of indecent images. The phone was registered to Dyke and he had not told Humberside Police, said Miss Hanson.
She added that put him in breach of the prohibition in the Sexual Harm Prevention Order. Digital forensic analysis of the phone revealed 765 images of children with 232 of the most extreme category. There was also an image of bestiality.
A total of 84 files had been distributed from the phone. For Dyke, Michael Forrest submitted a letter from his client and said: “He only has himself to blame. He has expressed remorse. He feels horror and revulsion that the police officers and court officers have had to look at this material.”
He added the defendant’s father is in a hospice and the son had “turned to the dark corners of the internet”. Mr Forrest said: “He does not want to be back here again, nor accessing this material.”
Judge Singh said the neighbour had very sensibly and properly brought the discarded phone to the police station. He said Dyke posed a high risk to children.
“This is not a victimless crime. By viewing this you create a marketplace and children are being raped for your pleasure. There was a high volume of images, with many victims as a result,” told the judge.
He jailed Dyke for a total of 44 months and imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention order for 20 years.