‘Librarian’ of child abuse ring jailed for at least 45 months

A PAEDOPHILE who acted as a “librarian” for a global internet child abuse ring was jailed yesterday after one of the biggest undercover police investigations into online abuse in Britain.

Unemployed Philip Thompson, aged 27, amassed nearly a quarter of a million indecent pictures of children, including thousands in the two most serious categories.

He was jailed for a minimum of 45 months after pleading guilty to 27 child abuse charges at Teeside Crown Court in Middlesbrough.