Paul Hilton, a Paedophile children’s performer from Banbury, was apprehended by his neighbour while viewing ‘shocking and vile’ child pornography.
On August 18 of the previous year, Paul Hilton was discovered viewing child pornography on his parents’ living room television by a neighbour in Malvern Close, Banbury.
Upon arrest, the self-employed ventriloquist operating under the name ‘Paul Dumas’ informed the police, “I acknowledge that my actions constitute a crime.”
“I acknowledge my actions; I will not refute them.” I possess a curiosity for young youngsters.
Paul Hilton, aged 60, was detained at HMP Bullingdon for seven months before being granted bail in March of this year.
At Oxford Crown Court on Monday (April 15), Judge Nigel Daly sentenced him to a two-year community order, stating: “This was a substantial collection involving, at the highest level, very young children subjected to appalling and abhorrent sexual abuse.”
“It’s clear you have a sexual interest in these images.
“Somewhere, young children have been forced to suffer these horrendous acts which have been photographed, preserved and filmed so people like you could get sexual satisfaction from viewing.”
Prosecuting, Bethan Chichester said Hilton’s neighbour was alerted by friends that a man across the road was looking at a video of a young girl.
The neighbour checked and saw a ‘big television’ with ‘several videos on the screen as if they were scrolling through, choosing what to watch’.
Police were called and found the video still playing when they arrested Hilton.
They also found sex toys, lubricants and a sex chat still open on a laptop.
Paul Hilton was charged with six counts of possession of indecent images after being caught with 1,172 Category C images still and moving, 78 Category A images still and moving, and 127 Category B images still and moving.
Paul Hilton was also caught and charged with possession of 18 prohibited images of a child and three extreme pornographic images.
Defending Hilton, barrister George Josef said: “[Prison] has been extremely unpleasant, sharing a cell with people who have serious mental health issues, serious health issues, eating cold food having no one to talk to, no way to improve yourself.
“He was left to his own devices and tried to keep his mind occupied the best he could. These offences have been stressful on his social and family life.
“He’s described it as a sickness, he doesn’t want to feel this way.”
Paul Hilton, now of no fixed abode, was ordered to complete 35 rehabilitation activity days and was made subject to a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
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