The disgraced former BBC worker had greater than 6,000 indecent pictures on his laptop.
Dylan Dawes was discovered responsible (Picture: PA)
A former BBC producer has been convicted of downloading indecent pictures of kids. Dylan Dawes, 50, who started his profession on the BBC in 2000, had in extra of 6,000 indecent pictures of kids saved on his units after they had been seized by officers.
Dawes denied harbouring a sexual curiosity in kids and claimed one other particular person could have used the units, which had been often left in a single day on the BBC’s Cardiff headquarters. Following a trial this week, he was discovered responsible by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court docket on Friday. The court docket was informed that Dawes was arrested in 2022 after officers raided his Cardiff house, uncovering indecent pictures throughout 4 units, amongst them a tough drive, laptop computer and iPad. Dawes, who collaborated with presenters together with Jason Mohammad and Rhod Gilbert, informed the court docket he had “pretty commonly” considered “grownup pornography” however denied having downloaded indecent pictures of kids.
Harry Baker, prosecuting, argued that the photographs had been found on 4 of Dawes’ units and that it was inconceivable this was an “sad coincidence”.
Choose Egan, addressing the jury, mentioned: “The prosecution successfully mentioned to you, ‘what are the probabilities of that?”
Dawes joined the BBC whereas residing in London in 2000, earlier than taking over his publish at BBC Wales upon relocating to Cardiff in 2001, the place he labored as a producer on radio programmes and podcasts.
Andrew Taylor, defending, argued that Dawes was of “good character”, portraying him as an clever particular person who would have recognized to destroy any proof, relatively than transfer pictures into the easily-accessible recycle bin on his units.
“He did not do away with it as a result of he had no purpose to consider that there was any imagery on his units that was incriminatory,” he mentioned.
The court docket was informed that Dawes had “no concept” how the photographs got here to be downloaded and rejected any suggestion that he had used the search time period “jailbait”, indicating that one other individual could have gained entry to his units.
Dawes, from Cardiff, was suspended from his place on the BBC following his arrest and is not employed by the broadcaster.
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On Friday he was convicted of three counts of possessing an indecent picture of a kid, and three counts of constructing an indecent picture of a kid, referring to greater than 6,000 pictures found on his units.
Dawes, who’s not employed by the broadcaster, might be sentenced on Might 14.
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