Craig Meehan child porn appeal abandoned

Jan 6 2009 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

KAREN Matthews’ former partner Craig Meehan abandoned his appeal against conviction for downloading indecent images of children.

Meehan, 23, was due to appeal at Leeds Crown Court to appeal against his conviction for possessing child pornography in relation to 49 indecent images which were found on his computer.

Judge Geoffrey Marson QC allowed the appeal against two of the images and Meehan abandoned the appeal against the remaining charges.

David Orbaum, for Meehan, said the prosecution was offering no evidence on the two images due to an agreed basis of facts.

He added that Meehan “accepts he searched the internet for, and then downloaded, adult pornography on to his computer’’.

Mr Orbaum went on: “As a consequence of these searches indecent images of children were downloaded, all of which were deleted.”