Internet paedophile behind bars

An internet paedophile found with the "worst" child porn collection ever recovered has been jailed indefinitely.

Convicted child rapist Arthur Morley's sickening collection of pictures and videos included newborn babies and toddlers being raped and abused by adults.

The material was so extreme it shocked even the toughest officers in the Met's Paedophile Unit, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.

Morley, who had previous convictions for rape, attempted rape and indecent assault - all against children - and was a registered sex offender, used a false name, a false address and an internet cafe to avoid detection.

Despite his precautions he was eventually identified by police and arrested. He was searched and a "secret compartment" found in his coat pocket containing a memory stick used to store some of the indecent images.

A similar storage device and a laptop hard drive were then found hidden in yet more "secret compartments" in his car dashboard. His laptop also contained forbidden material.

Morley, 64, of Greenford, Middlesex, pleaded guilty to 50 counts of distributing, making and possessing hundreds indecent images of children between January 11 and March 6 this year.

The defendant bowed his head in apparent shame as Judge Peter Testar told him it was clear he posed a "high risk to the public".

That meant the only way to deal with him was to impose an "indeterminate" sentence to protect them.

"The court is concerned with indecent images of the most extreme nature, and I mean extreme nature with capitals underlined.

"The material which has been described in detail by the Crown depicts the most serious abuse of the youngest of children, even babies."

After explaining Morley would have to serve a minimum of two years and two months before he could be considered for parole, the judge added he would never be allowed to work with children for the rest of his life.

He would also remain on the sex offenders' register for life.

Outside court, case officer Jason Tunn said: "Arthur Morley, and any other paedophile who attempts to create a market for such horrific child abuse imagery, will be robustly and relentlessly pursued by the Met's Paedophile Unit to ensure children are safeguarded from such intolerable abuse."

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