A 38-year-old Winchester Paedophile, Steve Blackthorne, has been convicted for possessing obscene photos of youngsters and leaving the printouts on trains.
Steve Blackthorne, of Winchester, Hampshire, pled guilty to the creation and distribution of indecent photos / pseudo-photographs of children.
Following a British Transport Police investigation, he was sentenced to two years in jail, suspended for two years, at Winchester Crown Court on Tuesday, July 9.
Steve Blackthorne was also given a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.
He must perform 150 hours of unpaid work and pay £650 in costs.
The court heard how, on Sunday, January 23, 2022, a train guard was handed six pages of A4 papers by a passenger who discovered them left behind by a man who exited the service at Basingstoke.
The pages contained horrifying indecent graphic photographs of children, including 16 Category A (the most severe), five Category B, and 16 Category C.
The photographs brought the guard to tears, and he contacted British Transport Police, who met the train at Southampton station.
Just a few days later, on Monday, January 31, a member of the cleaning staff spotted another batch of photographs while pulling down a folding table. Horrified and horrified by what the papers contained, he promptly reported it to his management, who then contacted British Transport Police.
The six pages once again included 16 Category A, five Category B, and 16 Category C indecent photographs of children.
A CCTV search revealed Steve Blackthorne as the passenger who had left the printouts.
On Monday, March 14, investigators raided Basingstoke station and detained Steve Blackthorne. A search of his phone revealed 60 Category A, 27 Category B, and 81 Category C photos.
A laptop he was carrying was also seized, and an assessment revealed that it contained two Category A and three Category C photos.
A search of his home address yielded another laptop with an additional 10 Category A photos.
During the police questioning, he admitted to printing the photographs from a work computer.
Investigating officer DC Phil James stated, “Such was the level of Steve Blackthorne’s depravity that the images he had compiled left those who inadvertently came across them deeply traumatised.”
“No one in their right mind would ever desire to view these heinous sights.
“Steve Blackthorne showed no shame in his perversion even transferring the images to a work computer so he could print them out at work to look at at his leisure.”
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