After pleading guilty to child and adult sexual offences, an anesthesiologist and Cotgrave Paedophile, Dr Edward Finn, has been imprisoned.
Dr Edward Finn acknowledged three counts of voyeurism, one act of sexual assault by touching of a child under the age of 13, and three charges of producing and taking indecent photos of children.
Appearing before Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing on Friday, June 28, 2024, the 36-year-old, who committed the crimes between July 2015 and November 2023,
Dr Edward Finn was sentenced to twelve years, eight in custody and four extended.
Dr Edward Finn also perpetually signs the Sex Offenders’ Register and is under an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and restraining order.
Previously of Hollygate Lane, Cotgrave, Dr Edward Finn reportedly sexually touched a young patient at King’s Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield after taking obscene pictures of her.
Dr Edward Finn also photographed a known naked child. The child was not patient.
One of his voyeurism claims concerned an unidentified woman patient at the Derby Royal Infirmary on July 1, 2015, when he covertly captured images under her clothing without her consent.
Another allegation of voyeurism concerned an adult he knew but who lacked patience.
Investigators looking over Dr Edward Finns digital records found thousands of pornographic images.
Dr Edward Finn produced 179 “category A” photographs, the severe maximum classification for pornographic images of young people.
His devices also revealed a further 268 “category B” and 3,461 “category C” images made by him.
UPDATE 15.06.25
An anaesthetist who captured obscene photographs of himself assaulting an unconscious five-year-old girl in a hospital has had his appeal over the duration of his prison sentence rejected.
He allegedly captured inappropriate images of his wife while she was asleep, as well as of a three-year-old kid and an adult patient when they were anaesthetized under his supervision.
The Court of Appeal determined that Edward Finn, 37, perpetrated “one of the most egregious breaches of trust conceivable.”
Finn confessed to one charge of sexual assault against a kid under 13, three charges of producing indecent images of children, three charges of capturing indecent images of children, and two charges of voyeurism.
Following his guilty plea at Nottingham Crown Court, Finn was sentenced in June 2024 to eight years of imprisonment, accompanied by an extended licence of four years.
The Court of Appeal in London rejected his appeal against the sentence.
Mr. Justice Johnson, accompanied by Lord Justice Fraser and Judge Martin Picton, stated that Finn’s offences occurred between 2014 to 2023.
The judge stated that he was uncovered after his wife discovered photographs of nude youngsters on an old iPad, within a folder tagged “hidden.”
Subsequent examinations of all of Finn’s devices uncovered hundreds of obscene photographs of minors, comprising over a hundred in the most severe classification, as well as images of an adult and a child captured during his professional activities.
Finn, residing on Hollygate Lane in Cotgrave, informed authorities that he was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder following the death of a girl he was treating.
The justices rejected the appeal.
Mr. Justice Johnson, rejecting the appeal, stated that the sentence was “not erroneous in principle or manifestly excessive” and remarked: “This constituted one of the most flagrant breaches of trust conceivable.”
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