A FORMER Flintshire council official who admitted downloading indecent images had been hounded out of his home, a court heard.
David Bloore, 58, was suspended and has now lost his job as a senior transport manager with Flintshire Council.
At Mold Crown Court, sitting at Chester, Bloore was placed on a two year community order after a judge was told he was prepared to accept help and intervention.
Judge Nicolas Parry sent him on an intensive sex offender treatment programme.
Bloore was placed on the sex offender register for five years and an indefinite Sexual Offenders’ Prevention Order was made to control his use of the internet.
Stephen Edwards, defending, told the court: “He has lost his employment and as a result of a campaign of hatred he and his wife have been hounded out of their
Connah’s Quay home and have relocated to another area.”
Bloore, who worked for Flintshire Council for some years, admitted 16 charges – 14 that he made indecent images of children aged between two and 13 by downloading them from the internet and two of possessing images and videos between August 2008 and March 2010.
Sandra Subacchi, prosecuting, said police executed a warrant at his home in January of last year and seized a computer.
Analyses showed it contained 619 indecent images – the majority at the least serious level one but 52 at level four and one at the most serious level five.
The nine videos found were at level one and two.
They were all in unallocated files which meant they had been deleted after they were viewed.
Stephen Edwards said Bloore had no explanation for accessing such material, the vast majority of which was at the lowest level of seriousness.