December 2016

Carlisle man jailed for sex assaults

A Carlisle man has been jailed for four years for sex assaults against a child

Geoffrey Blacklock was sentenced after being found guilty of six counts of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14.

The assaults took place in the later 1970s and early 1980s in north Cumbria.

68-year-old Blacklock, of Hawthorn Grove, was also sentenced to an indefinite restraining order to protect the victim. He will remain on the sex offender’s register indefinitely.

January 2017

Whitehaven man found with cache of child sexual abuse images

A pervert amassed a cache of child sexual abuse image featuring almost a quarter of a million sick and perverted pictures.

Graham Capocci, 44, spent seven years downloading a library of illegal images which was branded a “horror show” by Carlisle’s top judge.

Some of the 236,000-plus pictures found on Capocci’s computer equipment featured girls aged as young as two to four.

He was jailed for 12 months at Carlisle Crown Court having admitted four crimes.

These were three counts of making indecent photographs of children and one possession charge.

Prosecutor Wayne Jackson said the criminal collection was uncovered after police raided Capocci’s Wellington Row home in Whitehaven.

Some 352 photographs classed in category A – the most serious – were recovered

The court heard Capocci was a man without any previous convictions.

David Birrell, defending, said the defendant had made full admissions in interview.

“He said, frankly, ‘I am addicted’ – his word – to these images, so there was some recognition that was a problem,” said Mr Birrell.

“His previous good character is a reason why this court can legitimately step back from sending him to custody immediately.”

But Judge Peter Davies disagreed. “This is a particularly serious example of indecent images,” he told Capocci, having heard details of the raid by police.

“What they found was an Aladdin’s cave, a horror show of a quarter of a million unlawful images of children, gathered since 2009 – a period of seven years.

“That means you had an insatiable appetite for this material. An exorbitant, catastrophic amount of images.”

Capocci will be subject to the terms of a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.

January 2017

Cumbria man jailed for possessing indecent images of children

A MAN from Cumbria has been jailed for three years and six months for possessing, making and distributing indecent images of children.

Neil Cameron McIntosh, 51, of Stanley Road, Brampton, was sentenced today at Carlisle Crown Court.

He was also sent to prison for possessing extreme pornographic images, including portraying an indecent act a dog.

McIntosh has been placed on the sexual offender register indefinitely and received an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Officers found McIntosh to be in possession of almost 3,000 indecent images which fell into categories A to C – with A being the most serious.

The offences occurred between July 2014 and April 2016 on a number of devices and all took place in Brampton.