Ex-firefighter's stark admission after he's found with over a MILLION indecent images of children

An ex-firefighter has avoided jail after downloading over a MILLION indecent images of children … he even admitted to police he had been doing it since 1998.

Bill Platt, 59, was found to be in possession of an ‘enormous’ amount of the vile pictures and videos of children, aged from babies up to 16-years-old.

Police had gleaned information that Platt, of Worsley, was downloading indecent images of children, and conducted a search at his house on June 24 2019. He was arrested and handed over the PIN codes to his various devices, Manchester Crown Court heard.

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“He was asked about his computer and he said: “I’m downloading indecent images of children”, and said it had been going on since 1998 and said he was ‘relieved’”, prosecutor Roger Brown said.

“They confiscated 24 devices. There are so many images it’s been impossible to say which ones have images on - the likelihood is they have.

“There were examinations of the devices, the total number of category A images was 15,690, the total number of category B images was 15,753 and the total number of category C images was 837,729.”

Category A images are said to be the worst type of indecent images, of which there were 1,024 videos. It was said that the police reviewed over 25 million images from the devices.

A total of 11 million images were identified, and another million were not checked. In total there were 12 million images, which was the ‘biggest number’ Mr Brown said he had ever come across.

In his police interview, Platt spoke about the ages of the children in the images depicted to be aged from babies to children aged 16. One video was 21 minutes long.

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