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Posted By: Anonymous adjourned over ex-councillor's child porn picture - 24th Feb 2009 5:08pm
Sentencing of a former Wirral councillor who has admitted downloading more than 1,700 indecent images of children was adjourned today.

Ian Graham McKellar, of Sandy Lane, West Kirby, had been due for sentence at Liverpool Crown Court but this was postponed until next month.

He pleaded guilty last month to eight offences of making indecent images prior to May 11, 2006.

58-year-old McKellar is a former chairman of West Wirral Conservatives and represented Claughton on Wirral council in the 1980s.

His barrister Arthur Gibson asked for extra time for further assessment to assess McKellar's suitability for the "Northumbria" sex programme.

Judge David Aubrey, QC, agreed to this but warned McKellar that was no indication of the sentence he may receive.

At the earlier hearing a judge was told that the images involved 1,639 images in the lowest category and the other 83 were in the next three more serious categories.

McKellar pleaded guilty on the basis that he had deliberately sought to look at naked girls aged between 12 - 16 in erotic poses but had not wanted to look at children involved in the more serious categories, including having sex with adults.

The images had not been stored after being viewed, said Mr Gibson.

McKellar was further remanded on bail to await sentence on March 18.

THE WIRRAL GLOBE
Northumbria Sex Offender Groupwork Programme

Programme aims:

To reduce sex offending by adult male sex offenders


Who is suitable?

Male sex offenders who:

• are within the normal IQ range
• commit any type of sexual offence
• are assessed as suitable in a PSR


Who is not suitable?

• Female sex offenders
• Sex offenders with an IQ of less than 80
• Men with severe drug/alcohol misuse behaviour
• Men with current mental health problems
• Men assessed as psychopathic
• Men in total denial of their sex offending


The programme involves:

• 160 hours of attendance consisting of sessions run for one or two days per week
• The core programme consists of four modules. Men can attend at the beginning of any module
• High risk/high deviancy men will attend the core group followed by Relapse Prevention (36 hours)
• Low risk/low deviancy men will normally complete individual preparation work followed by the Relapse Prevention Programme
• Offenders released from prison will follow similar routes according to their assessment of risk and deviancy


**A lobotomy is quicker - and cheaper.
lol, I'm taking up alcohol....then becoming a sex offender.

What gets me is how this councillor was caught, Did he just turn him self in, was he caught in the act?

off with his balls none the less !
Originally Posted by _jase_
McKellar pleaded guilty on the basis that he had deliberately sought to look at naked girls aged between 12 - 16 in erotic poses but had not wanted to look at children involved in the more serious categories, including having sex with adults.

The images had not been stored after being viewed, said Mr Gibson.

He was still looking at child porn!!!!!!!! mad

and with 1,700 images viewed, it sure as hell wasnt by accident.



As for Northumbria's Sex Offender Groupwork Programme raftl what a joke
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