Reading Crown Court: Police make shocking discovery in Lambourn paedophile's bedroom

POLICE officers were stunned when they entered the bedroom of a paedophile whose home they raided.

For the walls were festooned with extreme pornography, some depicting dead people.

One even showed Geraint Elleschild, also known as Rees-Elleschild, sexually abusing his cat, Reading Crown Court heard on Friday, January 27.

In addition, there were children's clothes and sex toys which the 59-year-old, of Tubbs Farm Close, Lambourn, had daubed in fake blood.

And when officers examined his computer, they found more than 200 indecent images of children.

Some of them were Category A, the most extreme kind, which showed young children being raped.

Stefan Weidmann, prosecuting, said: "This can only lead to the conclusion that the defendant is a disturbed man.

"I don't advance that description lightly; looked at in the whole, a deeply perturbing image emerges.

"As well as a substantial number of Category A images there was children's underwear and sex toys, doctored to appear blood stained.

"There was a shopping list indicating his desire to buy a child's life jacket and arm bands.

"Some of the extreme imagery was very disturbing; there was an image of him sexually abusing his cat and images of people that were deceased."

After being arrested Elleschild, who was a cleaner for a Welcome Break motorway services, exercised his right to silence.

However he subsequently admitted possessing 69 indecent images of children in Category A, possessing one indecent image of a child in Category B and 93 in Category C.

Elleschild also pleaded guilty to making 65 Category B still images of children.

Josephine Teale, defending, pointed out that her client had no prior convictions and looked after his wheelchair-bound mother, with whom he lives.

She handed the judge a character reference written on her son's behalf by the 88-year-old.

Ms Teale conceded that Elleschild had sought to minimise the offences when talking to a probation officer but added: "That's not unusual, I would suggest.

"He has expressed remorse to me today."

She said Elleschild had lost his cleaning job as a result of his convictions and asked Judge Amjad Nawaz to suspend any prison sentence he might impose.

Judge Nawaz told Elleschild he appeared to have "an obsessive interest in children" and pointed out that many of the extreme images showed young children being raped.

He added: "What pleasure anyone could derive from viewing that is hard to imagine."

However, Judge Nawaz said the probation service felt Elleschild could be "safely managed in the community" and added: "If work can be done to reduce the risk you pose it's better for you and better for the public."

He sentenced Elleschild to 20 months imprisonment, suspended for two years.

During that time Elleschild must attend a sex offenders programme.

He will have to sign the Sex Offenders Register for seven years and be subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for the same period.

No order for costs was made because of Elleschild's lack of means to pay.