July 2015
Carlisle man placed on sexual offences register for indecent child images
A Carlisle man has been placed on the sexual offences register after he appeared in court charged with eight-offences of ‘making indecent still photographs/pseudo/photos of a child’.
Casey Robert Chapman, 27, who gave his address as St Anns Road, Carlisle, pleaded guilty last month to four-offences dated between March 25, 2010 and December 2, 2013.
The offences relate to indecent ‘still images’, there are 2-catagory C-images; 1 category B and 1 category A.
He also pleaded guilty to four similar offences in relation to dates between August 18, 2004 and December 2, 2013, the category of indecent images are 2-category B image and 2 category A images.
District Judge Gerald Chalk sitting at North Cumbria Magistrates Court was told all the offences took place at an address in Carlisle.
The severity of the indecent images are categorised as, A is the most serious, down to category B images.
The judge said his powers were “insufficient” to pass sentence on Chapman; he will appear at Carlisle Crown Court to be sentenced on August 24.
