GP had secret hoard of thousands of images

A doctor was downloading thousands of images of children when he was working as a GP and paediatrician, a court heard. David Shaw, 48, amassed more than one million photographs of children across 16 devices. He used anonymisation techniques on the sharing network Freenet to download 1,278,256 images of children. Shaw admitted three counts of making and possessing indecent images of children at Maidstone Crown Court on 18 October last year. He was arrested by National Crime Association officers at…