Man caught with indecent images of children avoids prison due to court delays
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Updated: 16:56, 16 January 2021
A man hoarding âunspeakableâ images of children being sexually abused escaped prison following âoutrageous negligenceâ in the justice system.
Graham Schofield, 63, from Herne Bay, was caught with 122 of the worst kinds of photographs in 2015, but it took five years to get him to court.
Graham Schofield was spared a more serious punishment because of the delays
When police levelled excuses to an angry Judge Rupert Lowe for the unacceptable delay, he dismissed them as âjust platitudesâ.
Judge Lowe told prosecutors it was âimpossible to do justiceâ five years after an offence, claiming the whole system âis not working.â