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R v Bolingbroke. [Court of Appeal; Criminal Division]

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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date06 July 2000
Date06 July 2000
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Court Of Appeal [Criminal Division.]

Before Lord Woolf, Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice Rougier and Mr Justice Bell

Regina
and
Bolingbroke

Criminal sentencing - Internet child pornography - courts will take firm line

Internet child pornography sentences

A firm line would be taken by the courts when sentencing those who posted indecent photographs of children on the Internet, even if the offences were not done for profit and the offender was of previous good character.

The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, so stated in allowing in part an appeal by Leslie John Bolingbroke against concurrent sentences of two years imprisonment on his plea of guilty to six offences of distributing indecent photographs of a child and, consecutively, concurrent sentences of two years imprisonment on his plea of guilty to 10 offences of possessing an indecent photograph of a child for distribution, imposed on December 10, 1999 by Judge Rucker at Southwark Crown Court.

Mr Peter Rowlands, assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals, for the appellant.

THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, giving the judgment of the court, said that the appellant had posted numerous images of extreme child pornography on the Internet. On one day alone he had posted 145 such images.

The offences had clearly been made possible by advances in technology which had meant...

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