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A paedophile pensioner was unmasked after a computer shop expert found indecent images of children on a laptop he had taken in for repair.

Glyn Davies, 74, of Mostyn Broadway, Llandudno , had taken 50 indecent movies of children on the town’s North Shore and West Shore beaches and at Craig y Don paddling pool.

Emmalyne Downing, prosecuting, told Caernarfon crown court the offences came to light last September when Davies went to Computer World in Colwyn Bay to have the laptop repaired and cleaned.





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There, Paul Jackson, who is in the family business with his uncle, realised there were pornographic images on the computer and told police.

When police searched Davies’ home they found two more laptops which contained 16 images of Category A, the most serious, 24 images and movies of Category B, and nearly 2,400 of Category C.

More than 100 of them had been taken by Davies, including the 50 of children in bathing wear on beaches at Llandudno. There were 25 different girls or groups, ages ranging from three to about 13, taken on 18 different days. The images were of Category C, the least indecent, and there was no suggestion he’d spoken to the youngsters or touched them.

Davies pleaded guilty to five charges involving child pornography between 2007 and last September and was jailed for 26 months.

A sexual harm prevention order and sex offender’s order were made and will remain in force for his lifetime.

Judge David Hale also awarded £150 to Mr Jackson and said: “He did exactly the right thing.”

Simon Rogers, defending, said the real mitigation was his plea. Davies was in poor health, having suffered two heart attacks a few years ago and having Type 2 diabetes.

Passing sentence Judge Hale said Davies had been jailed for four years in 1989 for offences of indecency involving teenage girls in which he had taken photographs of some of them.

“You didn’t learn your lesson,” he said.

Referring to the beach photographs, the judge said: “You couldn’t resist taking photographs of them with the zoom lens of your camera, invading their privacy.”

Davies then had “the brass neck” to complain his own privacy had been infringed by the shop.

The Category A images he had downloaded would have shown young children “being openly abused somewhere in the world – for your pleasure”.

At the computer shop after the case, 31-year-old Mr Jackson, the father of a little boy, was delighted when told about the award and the judge’s remarks.

“I’m just pleased that he’s been caught,” he said.

“A small thumbnail preview led to the images, and when we realised what they were we told the police.”