Let-off for the perverted geek

A lonely computer science student who used his IT skills to download more than 100 indecent images of children was spared jail. James Bedford, 25, was caught with two laptops containing videos of horrific abuse when police searched his house in Enfield, north London, on 3 April last year. Officers found 141 files of still and moving images when Bedford handed over the passwords to the devices. Shannon Revel, defending, argued Bedford had struggled to adjust to life away from…