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A JUDGE who once caused controversy for describing a burglar as courageous, has refused to jail a paedophile for fear he will "have a hard time in prison."
Judge-Peter-Bowers-has-caused-outrage-for-refusing-to-jail-a-paedophile-North-News-Pictures- Judge Peter Bowers has caused outrage for refusing to jail a paedophile (North News & Pictures)
Judge Peter Bowers has caused further outrage after letting Mark Martin walk free, despite already being on a suspended jail sentence.
Martin was found with indecent images on his mobile phone, and had been using his brother's computer to download other images of young boys and girls.
But although the 24-year-old broke the terms of his suspended sentence, Judge Bowers had his concerns about locking him up.
This really is your last chance, he told him at Teesside Crown Court on Friday as he passed yet another suspended sentence.
You present quite a problem for me because, in theory, you had breached the suspended sentence, he continued.
As most people will know, if people do breach a suspended sentence, then it is almost inevitable they go straight away to prison. But I have read with some concern about you, and this addiction you have had of looking at pornography of little children.
I think you would suffer very badly in prison and I don't think, at the moment, it is necessary to send you there today.
I think you would suffer very badly in prison and I don't think, at the moment, it is necessary to send you there today.
I am going to give you another suspended sentence, but you have got to understand it is the very last chance you are ever going to get.
You are probably doing the right thing not to have any internet access... it is a temptation you will find very hard to resist.
His decision will cause another public outrage, especially as prosecutor Sue Jacobs told the court that a total of 48 still and moving images of child abuse, some in the worst category, were found on his devices.
Martin, was given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, with probation service supervision.
This is not the first time Judge Bowers has come under fire for his decision-making.
In September last year, he described serial burglar Richard Rochford as 'courageous' but his words were taken as a 'serious error of judgement', especially when he opted not to send Rochford to jail.
He was instead given a one-year prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/38...rglar-courageous-refuses-to-jail-a-paedophile