This is the initial image of a Wolverhampton Paedophile, Martin Connors, apprehended with a repugnant compilation of 72,000 child exploitation photographs. Martin Connors’ alarming collection comprised images and recordings of youngsters as young as three years old.
Martin Connors possessed numerous disturbing images of adults and animals. The police apprehended the 44-year-old on intelligence regarding the availability of indecent photographs at his residence in the Black Country.
The prosecution asserted that a peer-to-peer file sharing network was utilised to perpetrate the offences, as presented in Wolverhampton Crown Court. Authorities confiscated several devices following the execution of a search order at the premises on August 18, 2023.
An external hard drive and a computer tower – with a further three internal hard drives within it – were examined. Prosecutor Olivia Appleby told the court that a total of 72,391 indecent images and videos of children were found – with 14,014 of the most serious category.
Martin Connors – of Primrose Avenue, Wolverhampton – accessed the content over a four-year period from 2019, she added. There were also 434 prohibited images of children, along with 767 extreme pornographic images of adults and animals – both dating back to 2016.
The sex offender had three convictions for five unrelated offences, with his last crime committed in 2007. Alison Scott-Jones, defending, said Martin Connors had been trying to ‘get some help’ since his arrest.
He cannot read or write and suffers from ‘some form of agoraphobia’. It means that he does not like to leave his home unless he has to walk his three dogs, she said.
Martin Connors suffered a ‘cataclysmic set of catastrophes and trauma’, with three of his brothers dying within years of each other and a fourth brother getting run over. Sentencing, Judge Talog Davies said Connors had a ‘difficult background and childhood’.
But he said the ‘colossal volume’ of images and videos meant he had to jail the defendant. The convict admitted three counts of making indecent images of children, one count of possession of a prohibited image of a child and one count of possession of extreme pornographic images.
Martin Connors was jailed for 27 months, handed a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and told to sign the sex offenders register for a decade when he appeared in court on October 17.
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