Child porn collector gets two-year suspended sentence

An Englishman caught at his home in Cork with thousands of pornographic images of children was given a two-year suspended jail sentence today after it was claimed that he had undergone psychiatric counselling and was no longer a risk to others in the community.

Defence barrister Donal O'Sullivan said the defendant had undergone about 15 months of counselling at his own expense and was, according to the psychiatrist, no longer a risk to society.