Perverted programmer walks free

A paedophile computer programmer has walked free from court with a suspended sentence for hoarding hundreds of child abuse images on his laptop. Christopher Begg, 41, was caught with more than 1,500 pictures involving children as young as eight but claimed hackers had planted the pictures Common Serjeant of London Judge Richard Marks, QC, said: ‘You have to be sentenced for three offences for making incident images of children. ‘These being offences of which you were counted by a jury…