Jail For Former Yorkshire Policeman Over Child Porn

8 May 2012, 15:30 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50

Ex-policeman Charles Littleboy has been jailed after police found a stash of images of horrific sexual abuse of young boys on two computers at his home in Thirsk. One image included a baby of around 3 months being abused.

He had almost 4,000  images and pleaded guilty last month to making indecent images of children , distributing indecent images of children, and possessing extreme pornographic images.

The court heard Littleboy downloaded images of child abuse from the internet over a 6 year period and engaged in depraved discussions with fellow paedophiles.

Simon Reevell, defending, said his client was a shy and private man who now faced ''utter humiliation''.

He jailed Littleboy for two-and-a-half years, put him on the Sex Offenders' Register for life and banned him from unsupervised contact with children.

Littleboy is a former director of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, which organises the Great Yorkshire Show. 

He was also a police officer with North Yorkshire Police in the 1980s.