Pervert's weak excuse after being caught with over one million indecent images of children

Nicholas Raymond, 30, admitted making and possessing 1,463 category A images as well as 663 category B and 634 category C images that depicted sexual abuse of young kids and babies

A depraved sex offender who has so many indecent images of children that police stopped counting claimed he doesn't have a sexual interest in children.

Lancashire Police found pervert Nicholas Raymond to have more than one million images that depicted sexual abuse of young kids and babies. The 30-year-old admitted making and possessing 1,463 category A images - the worst possible kind - as well as 663 category B and 634 category C images. He also had eight prohibited cartoon images and five extreme images showing sexual activity with animals.

However, Judge Philip Parry said the true number was much higher. Police snuffed out Raymond after a report in February 2022 to Lancashire Constabulary's Online Child Abuse Investigation Team which made them aware the disgusting images were being downloaded from an IP address linked to Raymond's home. Nine months later, in November 2022, they visited his address and seized his electronic items.

Detectives found that the disturbing images and videos weren't the only thing Raymon was hiding. Search terms found on his devices found that Raymond, who is diagnosed with autism, ADHD and OCD, had intentionally sought out the illegal material. The defendant claimed he had become fixated on the thrill of viewing the material. He went on to say how he had become addicted to mainstream porn as a teenager and this led to a descent into more extreme and illegal types of pornography, LancsLive reports.

Following his arrest he completed a course with Safer Lives, which helps offenders get to the root cause of their crimes. Raymond said he had talked himself into a narrative that the images were not real and were not causing any harm.

But Judge Parry said: "That, to my mind, doesn't show a great deal of reflection at all in relation to what is clear to myself and the author of the presentence report, which is that you do have a sexual interest in children and this wasn't borne out of the thrill to seek out this material. People like you who seek out material of this kind can, in my judgement, only be punished by immediate custody." He jailed Raymond for 20 months and made a 10 year sexual harm prevention order.