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A canteen worker at a top private school , who was caught sending out 'depraved' child porn pictures over the internet, has escaped a prison sentence.



Paul Harding, 50, shared films of children as young as six being abused and had more images on his home computer.

He also visited online chat sites where he told other paedophiles how he wanted to 'groom' a child who he would use to recruit other youngsters.

Harding, a catering supervisor at prestigious Dulwich College in southeast London, was spared jail by Judge Andrew Goymer who was a former student there.

He said: 'You have escaped prison by a gap so narrow that you could hardly see daylight through it.

'It needs to be spelled out that when these images are produced somewhere in the world a child is being abused to make them to satisfy the depraved tastes of people who enjoy looking at them.'

Harding was handed a 16-month prison term, suspended for a year, and banned from working with children indefinitely.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police's paedophile unit swooped on his home address in May 2012 as part of an ongoing crackdown on online child abusers, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Peter Zinner, prosecuting, said: 'As a result of these investigations an individual was identified.

'It was further established that individual was Paul Harding and that he was in the employ of Dulwich Boys School as a catering supervisor.

'Because of his proximity to boys and the suspicion that he might be a paedophile police officers expedited the application for a search warrant and on May 3, 2012, police officers attended his home address.'

These are the horrific injuries inflicted upon a young woman whose boyfriend flew into a rage when he was unable to withdraw money from a cash machine.



But despite the terrible wounds inflicted upon Loretta Butterworth, 22, by her boyfriend, Toby Hayden, 27, has been spared jail.

A woman who heard Miss Butterworth screaming 'please help me' said she saw Hayden holding her with one hand and hitting her face with the other.

His rage did not stop there and when police went to arrest him he spat in the face of one officer and tried to gouge the eyes of another.

Hayden was already serving a suspended prison sentence, but magistrates decided that not sending him to jail would be a tougher option.

Chairman of the bench Ms D Slater said: 'We are going to take the hard line by not activating the suspension order.

'Horfield [Bristol prison] would be the easy option, you could get this over with in four weeks.

'But this way you're going to spend the next year and a half addressing your behaviour.

'The suspended sentence will continue. If you breach it again, the next breach is undoubtedly going to activate that suspension order.'

After the hearing Miss Butterworth criticised the sentence and described how her face 'exploded like an airbag' during the assault.

She said: 'When I found out that he had walked free my heart sank. I was shocked and angry.

'He definitely should have gone to prison. He had previous convictions, he had been violent to people before, he was on probation when it happened.

'He resisted arrest, assaulted two police officers, caused criminal damage and that doesn't even cover what he did to me.

He punched me repeatedly, he didn't stop - but that wasn't enough for him so he kicked me in the back of the head as I lay on the floor unable to defend myself.

'He then stamped on my face before walking home to his parents. There was no remorse, there was no concern.'

rubato wrote: The young woman has no relatives or friends with baseball bats? Or those clumsy and ineffective-looking things you use for cricket?

rubato wrote: No wonder you have a problem.

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rubato

Gob wrote:The amazing thing is that, what with rubato being so duplicious and moronic, he's the only person I've ever known who speaks out of both sides of his arse.

Still ,nothing?

Well that is one way to never telegraph your intentions. Do nothing! That'll fool them! They'll never catch you if you never do shit-all.

yrs,
rubato

rubato wrote:So they've done nothing then?
yrs,
rubato

rubato wrote:And since they are obviously not going to do anything advertising is a moot point.


yrs,
rubato