Corby man jailed for making and taking indecent images of children
38 year old Liam Paul McKinnon, previously of Ashley Avenue is sentenced to three years two months
A 38-year-old man has been jailed after he admitted to making and taking indecent images of children in Corby.
In July this year, Liam Paul McKinnon, previously of Ashley Avenue, Corby, used an online file-sharing platform to engage with who he believed was an adult with a sexual interest in children.
During the conversation, he sent the other person an indecent video of a child that he’d obtained online as well as indecent photographs of children that he had taken himself.
McKinnon expressed an interest in trading images during the chat and also stated that he had considered contact offending, however at the present time felt it was “too risky”.
What he didn’t know however, was that the adult he was talking to was actually a police officer.
McKinnon was arrested in Corby on July 18 and later charged with making indecent images of children, distributing indecent images of children, taking indecent images of children and voyeurism.
During his police interview, he became extremely volatile, making threats of violence towards officers if they didn’t stop reading out the transcript of his online conversation, and ending the interview early.
After pleading guilty to all of the offences at Northampton Crown Court on August 30, he returned to the same court last week (October 11) where he was sentenced to three years and two months in prison.
Lead investigator - Detective Constable Abi Jones from Northamptonshire Police’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Unit (OCAIU), said: “I am pleased to see Liam McKinnon sent to prison and I hope it provides the people affected by his crimes with some closure, though no sentence could truly make up for how violated they will have felt having these photos taken of them.
“He has shown himself to be a predatory, dangerous and opportunistic offender, and shown real intent to sexually abuse young children. He is thankfully now behind bars and I hope that news reassures the public.
“All of us in the OCAIU are passionate about protecting children and we will use every available means in order to do that. We don’t just wait for the offenders to come to us, we proactively look for them as we have done here and we will continue working hard to ensure more people like Liam McKinnon are brought to justice.”