An Edingley Paedophile physical education instructor, Stuart Street, participated in a network for several months disseminating indecent photographs of minors online, as presented in court. His misconduct was unrelated to his employment at Queen Elizabeth School, Mansfield; yet, investigators visited the institution to apprehend him on October 12, 2021.
Stuart Street, 25, of Mansfield Road, Edingley, Newark, had been disseminating Category A photos of children, the most severe classification, and had downloaded disturbing images, in addition to owning extreme pornography and forbidden images of minors.
Nottingham Crown Court was informed of his arrest and the seizure of his iPhone, which revealed his alarming activities, including the distribution of photos and interactions with individuals on social media who shared a similar interest in minors.
Stuart Street encouraged them to go beyond the initial contact and spread images in the community also engaged in the same activities. In a pre-sentence report, Stuart Street stressed he had no sexual gratification from what he was doing, but Recorder Stuart Sprawson, who jailed him on Thursday (April 20, said, “indeed you did”.
He said Stuart Street was involved in seeking to engage directly in activities with children and asked others about their experience and knowledge. One image had involved Stuart Street “deliberately manipulating” a perfectly innocent image of a child by changing the picture and distributing it amongst his network.
Recorder Sprawson told the shamed teacher, “that was an appalling breach of trust”. Whilst Stuart Street co-operated with police and provided them with his phone, in interview he denied the offences and inexplicably said he did not know how the images were on his phone.
Stuart Street had indicated his phone has been hacked. But he later changed his plea to guilty – admitting offences involving the distribution of Category A and C images of children, downloading Category A and C images, and possessing extreme pornography and prohibited images of children.
Recorder Sprawson pointed out there were two separate distributions of Category A images, and an aggravating feature was they were moving images. He said Stuart Street was part of a network of people showing a collective interest in children and sexual gratification of them.
But he noted Stuart Street had not re-offended, had engaged with The Lucy Faithfull Foundation – the only UK-wide child protection charity dedicated solely to preventing child sexual abuse – and the impact of his offending, according to his family, was that this had changed him as a man and as a character – and he is now more inward and subdued.
The headline sentence was 17 months in prison, of which Stuart Street will serve half, and the remainder on licence, the sex offender register requirements for 10 years and sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.
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