Irishman Imprisoned For 2 Years In Ireland Over Thai Child Porn

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Pervert is jailed for two years

Abuser's horrific child sex images 'worst ever seen'

One of Ulster's worst cyber perverts - who once paid a mother in Thailand just £155 to let him take indecent photographs of her children - was today sent to prison for two years

Downpatrick man Ian Magill, who has convictions for two previous sex offences, was also given two years on probation and put on the sex offenders' registger for life after he was caught in possession of more than 15,000 images of horrific child abuse.

Investigating officers have described the images Magill was in possession of as the most horrific they have ever seen.

Judge Peter Gibson told Magill that the case "was one of the worst he ever had the misfortune to encounter."

The 59-year-old former museum worker, from Ballyhornan Road in Downpatrick, travelled to Thailand in 2002 where he handed over 10,000 baht - £155 - to a woman to let him take sick images of her four children.

He then posted these images on an internet site for other paedophiles to view.

When officers swooped on his home last year they discovered 15,229 indecent images of children. Hundreds of them were category 5, the worst level.

"For my team of investigators and the guys who forensically examined Mr Magill's computer, they are the most horrific images anyone ever had the displeasure to look at, " said Detective Sergeant Peter Montgomery.

"They will certainly have a lasting legacy on anyone who had to view those images. He is without doubt the worst case we have ever had to come across."

Magill had attempted to use technology to wipe all traces of the images from his computer, however forensic experts were able to recover them.

Mr Montgomery said: "We can't stress enough that people have to realise if they are committing these offences this organisation is determined to find them, trace them, arrest them and put them before the courts. No matter what they do to cover their tracks we will use every tool to try and uncover their actions.

"This case clearly demonstrates someone who tried to cover their tracks but we were able to uncover one of the most horrendous cases we have ever had to deal with."

Magill's sordid double life can be tracked back as far as 1991 when he was convicted of taking indecent images of a child. In 1995 he was arrested for smuggling child porn from Europe.

- Belfast Telegraph

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Magill Admitted 50 Charges

A man is jailed for two years after being found with thousands of indecent images of children.

A former staff member at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum has been jailed for two years after police uncovered over 15,000 indecent images of children on his computer.

Ian Patrick Magill, 59, of Ballyhornan Road in Downpatrick, was jailed at the town`s Crown Court.

Judge Peter Gibson said it was one of the most serious cases he had had the "misfortune of encountering."

The former interior designer and architect, who at one stage held a post at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra, previously admitted 50 charges of making indecent photographs of children.

The father of one was placed on the sex offender`s register for life.

He was also disqualified from working with children and ordered not to use a computer or mobile phone with internet access.

- UTV Ireland

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