Record details
A DETERMINED paedophile who embarked on the relentless pursuit of vile and disgusting indecent images of children has been jailed for four years and four months.
Alexander Allport possessed and distributed hundreds of images at category A, B and C, including movies of babies being raped, Bradford Crown Court heard today.
Allport, 37, of Canterbury Crescent, Halifax, shared the “disgusting and horrific” pictures with like-minded perverts on internet chat sites.
He was told by Judge Jonathan Rose: “Your behaviour is incomprehensible to any decent member of society.”
Allport was first arrested in May, 2017, when police officers acting on information went to his home and seized a memory stick and computers, prosecutor Ayesha Smart said.
Investigators found 114 category A movies and 300 category A images; 130 category B movies and 295 category B images; and 8 category C movies and 1,035 category C images.
They featured children aged between one and 14, the court was told.
Allport was distributing the images in a chatroom with 43 members. He shared 21 of them, some at category A, among 18 people, Miss Smart said.
He told the police he began downloading the images in 2016. He was then released under investigation.
On February 3 this year, the police returned to his home and seized three phones and a computer hard drive containing 10 category B images, 83 category C images and 752 prohibited images of children, comprising cartoons and 3D images.
Allport told the police that following his first arrest he had paid an American company for therapy to tackle his sexual attraction to children.
He was again released and he appeared in court in April.
On May 5, he was caught with 39 category A indecent images; 33 at category B and 60 at category C.
He was using a website to chat to boys and girls and taking to other paedophiles.
Allport was then remanded in custody and sentenced on a video link to Leeds Prison.
He pleaded guilty to making and distributing indecent images of children in 2017 and two further sets of offences of making indecent images of children.
Allport’s barrister, Charles Blatchford, said he had been frank with the police from the outset.
The group therapy sessions had stopped him offending for 18 months but then he ran out of money to pay for them.
Mr Blatchford conceded that immediate custody was inevitable and pointed to Allport’s lack of any offending until 2016.
Judge Rose said that Allport “embarked on the relentless pursuit of paedophilic images of children being debased and violated.”
He was a determined paedophile who engaged with like-minded perverts to share “disgusting and horrific images.”
Allport was jailed for a total of four years and four months. He must register as a sex offender indefinitely and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order was made, also for an indefinite period.
