CCA halves sentence of man jailed for having child porn images
The Court of Criminal Appeal has halved the three-year jail sentence imposed on a computer programmer who downloaded almost 16,000 child pornography images depicting children as young as four.
The three judge court reduced the sentence after holding that a detailed medical report that indicated that a head injury sustained by Gary Smith (aged 45) in a road traffic accident which had contributed to his deviant behaviour, was not fully taken into account when the three-year prison sentence was imposed.
