Perverting the Course of Justice by Deleting Indecent Images

摘要

The appellant T was married to a man who had, in 2003, been convicted of downloading indecent photographs of children from the internet and who had been imprisoned and was required to comply with the sex offender notification requirements. In 2008 the daughter of T was doing homework when she required a memory stick that she could use to transfer a file from her laptop to the main family computer so that work could be printed. T told her to look in a drawer and the daughter found a stick which she plugged in. She said that she saw a variety of titles on the stick that suggested that they were videos of child pornography. The child stated she told T of this who became 'tight-lipped' and then deleted the files from the stick.