Former councillor jailed for downloading sickening videos of child abuse.

Former Lincolnshire councillor Ian Dolby has appeared in court again after breaching his sexual harm prevention order.

Dolby, of North Road Sleaford, was originally jailed for two years in August 2017 after admitting to downloading images of children. He was placed on the sex register for 10 years and given a sexual harm prevention order to control his behaviour when released.

In August 2022, Dolby refused to hand over a device capable of accessing the internet for inspection by authorities, resulting in a breach of his prevention order.

Dolby pleaded guilty to the offence at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on December 12, 2022. He was fined £150, ordered to pay a £32 surcharge to fund victim services, and £85 in costs.

At his original trial in 2017, the court heard that police found over 700 computer disks containing pornography in Dolby's bedroom. Of these, 45 disks contained child pornography, including over 500 movies spanning 184 hours, downloaded between 2010 and 2013.

Mark Knowles, mitigating for Dolby, stated that 90% of the material found was adult pornography and attributed Dolby's actions to an obsessive personality. He argued that Dolby was a loner who spent most of his free time in his room on his computer.

Sentencing Dolby to prison in 2017, Judge Simon Hirst stated: "You have done everything you possibly could to avoid facing up to your wrong doing. This type of offending is not victimless in any way. Every still photograph and every frame of a film has the face of a child who has been sexually abused in the most cruel way imaginable. In behaving as you did, you perpetuated the market and distribution of such images and encouraged the making of more images."