A vile pervert who sent his partner a video of himself performing a sex act in front of a young girl said "what have I done" as police stormed his home.
Three months after Phil Hudson, 33, and the woman broke up, she went to Huyton police station and reported he was saying things about a child that disturbed her. She told officers “he started to disclose his fantasies and desires around children”, said Kate Morley, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, August 15.
She said he sent her a video of him engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child. She still had the video on her phone and gave it to officers for investigation.
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Liverpool Crown Court heard the 33-year-old university graduate, who had been working at Pets at Home and had a partner, was arrested on June 15 this year at his home in Garston. When being arrested he said “What have I done?”
He said he had had “a fling” with the woman and “had to leave his job and she was accusing him of serious offences.”
Miss Morley said when Hudson's phone was forensically examined, officers found seven indecent images of children as well as extreme pornography. When interviewed the man, who has no previous convictions, claimed to have no interest in children but he subsequently pleaded guilty to nine child sex offences and possessing extreme pornography.
His lawyer, Peter White said: “Clearly something unhealthy has been lurking in the background and eventually shown its ugly face.”
The court heard the video, lasting just over one minute, which he had sent to his former lover, showed Hudson performing a sex act in front of a young girl, while he was naked and holding his phone recording the incident.
When his own phone was examined a similar nine second video was found, said Miss Morley. She said the indecent photographs also found on his phone showed girls and boys aged between eight and 14.
Hudson, formerly of Lincoln Street, Garston, pleaded guilty to two offences of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, taking the indecent video and distributing it, four offences involving taking, making and possessing indecent photographs of children, possessing a prohibited image of a child and possessing six extreme pornographic images.
In interview he said he had sent the video to his former girlfriend as he thought she was interested in things like that, but had deleted it from his own phone as “he was mortified.” He went on to say he had had thoughts about bestiality “but that didn’t mean that he was going to do it".
Mr White said Hudson no longer maintained denials about the offences in a pre-sentence report and accepts his guilt.
He said: “Clearly there has been an unhealthy interest which needs to be addressed.”
He added it was hoped the defendant could be helped by rehabilitation courses.
Jailing him for 27 months the judge, Recorder Eric Lamb, said: “It will come as a considerable surprise to discover someone such as yourself, who had not been in trouble before, at the age of 33 comes before the court for such serious and grave offences.”
He said he had treated the girl “as an object you considered suitable to satisfy your own sexual requirements.”
Recorder Lamb told him: “You told police you did not have a sexual interest in children. Your actions belie that which you said to the police.”
He ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for ten years and imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for the same length of time.
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