'Loner' spared jail for downloading more than 6,000 indecent images of children at his mum's house
A Market Drayton man who downloaded more than 6,000 indecent images of children while living at his mother's home, has been spared jail.
Danny Alderman, now of Stafford Street, had accumulated thousands images and movies, including more than 545 of the most serious Category A files, on five devices accumulated over a ten-year period while he lived with his mother's address in Loggerheads, a court heard on Thursday.
The 38-year-old's stash of perverted images was found following information received by West Mercia Police from Staffordshire Police, who passed on Alderman's IP address (Internet Protocol) after finding the illgeal images on a file sharing website.
However, Mr Simon Parry prosecuting, told Shrewsbury Crown Court, that when police arrived at his mother's address in April 2020, they discovered Alderman had moved.
He said: “Police had confirmed the indecent images had been made available on a peer-to-peer sharing site called Bit Torrent. The IP address took police to Loggerheads where there was an unsuccessful warrant, but they confirmed the suspect was indeed Danny Alderman.”
