A jury has found former BBC producer Dylan Dawes guilty of downloading over 6,200 indecent images of children, including almost 200 category A images, the most serious..
The 50 year old from Cardiff, is accused of six counts of possessing or making indecent photographs of children, after images were found on four devices that belonged to him.
Dawes has denied all allegations, claiming that he is the victim of “someone else looking at pornography” on his devices.
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However he was found guilty after “overwhelming evidence” was presented at Cardiff Crown Court
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The judge said images had been downloaded on four devices – a laptop, hard drive, and two iPads.
RT reports: The verdict was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday, following a four-day trial. Dawes, who started working for the British public broadcaster in 2001, had pleaded not guilty to the three counts of possessing indecent images and three counts of making indecent images.
Dawes was arrested in 2022 after police officers raided his home and seized computers and storage devices, where they discovered the incriminating material, according to the Daily Express.
“During a period of time of about 16 years between December 31, 2006, and March 1, 2022, the defendant has been downloading child pornography” on four different devices, prosecutor Harry Baker reportedly told the court, adding that 192 of the images were category A – the most egregious kind.
Judge Eugene Egan said the jury found Dawes “guilty on what they found to be absolutely overwhelming evidence,” according to Wales Online.
The former BBC producer will be sentenced on May 14, and must now register as a sex offender.
The British state broadcaster has a growing record of employing and harboring pedophiles in its ranks.
Just last month, Scott Mills, one of the BBC’s highest-paid radio presenters, was axed following a reported renewed police investigation into sexual offenses against a teenage boy in the past.
Infamously, the BBC allegedly suppressed complaints about sexual abuse perpetrated by Jimmy Savile, who is believed to have had as many as 450 victims. His crimes came to light after his 2011 death, and while he was never officially prosecuted, the revelations prompted an unprecedented investigation into how the BBC handles internal abuse reports.
