Jacob Adair was found with a stash of child abuse images, including corpse porn (Picture: NCJ)

A young man has avoided jail after being caught with a trove of child sex images and extreme porn, some involving a corpse.

On two occasions Jacob Adair, 21, urged a 15-year-old to send him photographs of her breasts to add to his disturbing stash.

Police raided the Merseyside home he shared with his parents on December 3, 2015, and found his depraved collection stored on his computer.

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There were eight Category A – the most serious category – 11 Category B and 137 Category C indecent images of children, including three Category A videos. There were also 20 prohibited, and two extreme, porn pictures – including one involving a corpse.




However, he has walked free after receiving a suspended sentence so that he can go to university.

Ian Criddle, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court: ‘One involved sexual interference with a corpse, and one involved serious injury to genitals.’

He said Adair had been talking to his schoolgirl victim when he was 19, and that she ‘felt uneasy about the requests’.

When interviewed by police, Adair accepted that he knew she was only 15 and that he had asked her to take the photos. He admitted two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, three counts of downloading indecent images of children, and he also admitted possessing indecent images of children, prohibited images and extreme porn.

Adair, from Merseyside, was tried at Liverpool Crown Court (Picture: PA)

Paul Treble, defending, accepted the offences were serious but urged Judge David Aubrey QC to spare Adair prison.

‘He at the time found found himself in a very difficult position due to the death of his grandmother, which precipitated depression,’ Treble told the court.

‘It led to him becoming isolated, he started looking at the material, and one of the excitements – if I can put it that way – is that it was taboo.

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‘He is embarrassed and shocked now. He appreciates it was very, very wrong.’

Treble added that Adair had a place on a university course from September and that, if spared jail, the court would not see him again.

Judge Aubrey admonished Adair, telling him: ‘Each and every image represented the abuse of a child. You were perpetuating the abuse of that child because, if there were not like-minded people, there would not be such a market for like images.’

However, he said that Adair recognised his problems and had ‘potential’, and the court would therefore ‘permit you to begin your university career’.

Adair was given 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months, plus a sexual offenders treatment programme.