Paedophile gave underage girl 'Warhammer wand' and said 'don't tell anyone'

A paedophile gave a young girl a wand he used for mixing paint to decorate Warhammer figures and told her ‘you will figure it out, don’t tell anyone’. Nottingham Crown Court heard how police found a staggering 43,000 sick child abuse images and videos on Christopher Jolly’s mobile phone after they launched an investigation into his behaviour.

The 38-year-old former electrical engineer told officers he had been getting sexual pleasure from viewing “the worst of the worst” photos and films saying he had been visiting the dark web to download them for a number of years. Now he has been spared an immediate prison sentence for his perverted crimes.

Handing him an 18-month sentence, suspended for two years, Recorder Helen Malcolm KC said: “Clearly what makes this serious is her age and there were upwards of 43,000 indecent images. But set against that you were the first person to go to the police and say to them you had done something wrong and made admissions in interview.”

David Allan, prosecuting, said the offences all happened earlier this year. He said: “One of Mr Jolly’s hobbies was decorating Warhammer figurines and he had a wand which he used to mix the paint. He gave this to the victim and she asked him what it was for to which he replied ‘you will figure it out, don’t tell anyone’” knowing what he meant sexually".

The prosecutor said the girl told her father, who found and confronted the defendant, who denied giving her the item. Mr Allan said: “He was arrested in May of this year and made extensive admissions. He was bailed and arrested again in late July and asked where his phone was. It was rung and found under his duvet and again in interview made extensive admissions.

“He told them he had been accessing the dark web for a number of years to look at the images. He said he looked at ‘the worst of the worst’ and they found a vast amount of indecent images of children.

“There were 81 unique category A, 111 unique category B and 1,264 unique category B as well as 101 prohibited images of children which show cartoons or children’s faces imposed on to adult females. The police said there were over 43,000 images which were found but not categorised."

Jolly, of De Lacy Court, Ollerton, near Newark, pleaded guilty to inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, three counts of possession of indecent images of children and possession of prohibited images of children. He has a previous three-year jail sentence for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on an ex-girlfriend’s new partner, Mr Allan said.

Victoria Rose, mitigating, said her client “has been remorseful throughout and was full and frank with the police”. She said: “He just told her to have fun with it (the wand he used to mix paint for Warhammer models), she did not know what the object was for, and she did not use it and he did not give her any instructions.

“He had the realisation he needed to tell them (the police) everything now because there was the opportunity to seek help.”

As part of the suspended sentence order, the judge ordered Jolly to attend a 31-day sex offender treatment program and to attend 30 rehabilitation sessions. She also placed him on the sex offender register for 10 years and handed him a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.