Kettering raid found lorry driver's sick stash of 15,000 child abuse images

A lorry driver who downloaded more than 15,000 repulsive child abuse images told police he had "done nothing, just looked" after he was arrested.

Many of the files found at Mateusz Myslinski's home in Kettering showed sick acts involving babies and toddlers - with so many he had created a separate folder to store them.

Yesterday (Friday) Northampton Crown Court heard he had taken to therapy to address his twisted behaviour and try and stay out of prison.

But Her Honour Judge Adrienne Lucking QC told the 44-year-old she couldn't justify suspending a prison sentence as she jailed him for 14 months.

Northamptonshire Police said they wouldn't release his mugshot "for operational reasons".

The court heard police executed a warrant at Myslinski's home in Regent Street on February 23, 2017, initially arresting another man who was present.

But when officers returned to the house they found an "extremely emotional" Myslinski who told them: "It's me."

He handed over his mobile phone to police and gave them his password, before he was arrested and cautioned.

Prosecuting, Victoria Rose said: "He stated that he had done nothing, he had just looked."

Analysis of two devices found a total of 15,176 indecent images of children - 823 in category A (the most depraved), 971 in category B and a staggering 13,382 in category C. A total of 14 of the files were movies.

A 'high proportion' involved babies and toddlers and some showed sadistic acts so vile they cannot be printed.

Seven extreme pornographic images showing sexual acts with an animal and seven prohibited images were also recovered, which were cartoons of people engaging in sex acts with a child.

The paedophile had also installed a Tor browser to try and conceal his location from investigating authorities, with evidence that he had 'cleaned' a device multiple times.

Mitigating, Pree Brada said Myslinski was lonely and depressed and was drinking a large amount of alcohol at the time of the offences, which he pleaded guilty to.

She said: "The only way he can provide an explanation is that he fell down a rabbit hole into the dark web.

"He is extremely remorseful and feels extreme shame."

She added that the father-of-two had "really, really tried to change his views and behaviour" by going to therapy and voluntarily offering his passwords to police in routine visits, arguing the case for a suspended sentence.

But after reflecting "very carefully" Judge Lucking QC decided Myslinski would be sent straight to prison.

She said he had a "very worrying interest in children" and that children in the files he downloaded had been "put through unspeakable acts".

She said: "I cannot justify suspending this sentence...you have shown little regard for what has been experienced by the children in these images."

Myslinski held his head in his hands as he was told through a Polish interpreter that he was going to prison.

He will spend at least seven months of his 14-month sentence in custody before being released on licence.

He will also be on the register for sex offenders and subject to a sexual harm prevention order for a total of 10 years.