A pervert who downloaded more than 9,000 images of children being abused was spared prison because he has Asperger’s.
Kevin Cornes, 35, of Ascot Avenue, Runcorn, reportedly shook with anxiety in the dock for much of the hearing at Chester Crown Court on Monday as he appeared to learn his fate. Paedophile Cornes spoke to confirm he had pleaded guilty at magistrates’ court on May 6 to three counts of making indecent images of children and one of possessing an indecent image of a child, the latter charge covering all 9,177 images.
According to Simon Mintz, prosecuting, the “making” part of the charge refers to the act of downloading. He said police executed a warrant at Cornes’s home on March 30 last year and seized digital devices.
