Cop spared jail after he claims he had simply no idea how pictures of children ended up on his phone

A Met Police officer caught with more than 100 illegal images on his phone of the very worst kind has been spared jail. George Patmore, 32, who was attached to the Met’s North East Command Unit, was arrested in July 2022 after he was caught with over 100 pictures of children. The officer admitted publishing a picture article relating to a dog, but was cleared by a jury of three counts of making an image of a child after a…