A paedophile from Southall who made and distributed more than 60,000 indecent images of children has been jailed.
Even while on bail, having admitted to police that he downloaded and kept the indecent images, he continued to use the internet to find child pornography. Regnoricus Shanmugam was first arrested by police who were acting on intelligence that an unknown suspect was using the internet at an address in Hayes to download indecent images of children, Metropolitan Police said.
Shanmugam was at the address when police arrived on December 20, 2016, and confessed that he had been downloading the illegal pictures at a south London police station. He was released on bail and ordered to come back in October 2017. While on bail he was not allowed to have any unsupervised contact with anyone below the age of 18. He also had to report to a police station once a week.
The 28-year-old's bail was extended to March 2018 but Metropolitan Police became aware of new evidence that he has been distributing indecent images of children.
Shanmugam was charged that day with three counts of distributing indecent images of children and three counts of making indecent photographs of a child. He was remanded into custody the following day at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court before appearing at Isleworth Crown Court on June 11, where he pleaded guilty to all counts. He was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday (July 2), the Met said.
