Former police officer admits having hundreds of indecent images of children

A former police officer who downloaded nearly 500 indecent images and videos of children has been jailed for 15 months.

Jonathan McNeill admitted three charges of making indecent images of children by downloading them from the internet and storing them.

Investigators traced the images back to the 55-year-old, and he was arrested on 18 June last year at his home in Coventry.

Officers searched his home and recovered computer equipment. The police recovered 497 still and moving images from McNeill’s phone and computer devices.

Today (3 September) at Wolverhampton Crown Court, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison and put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.