Wigan man jailed for huge child porn collection found on forgotten USB stick

Alan Wills was this week beginning a 10-month prison sentence after admitting to possessing and making more than 1,700 indecent images of children - 489 of them classified as pictures of the severest forms of abuse (Category A).

The Wigan 65-year-old also pleaded guilty to having three films of someone having intercourse with a dog.

Wills’s crimes took place while he was living at both Withinlea Close, Hindley Green, and Woodyear Road on The Wirral over a nine-year period beginning in July 2009.

Prosecutors told a Bolton Crown Court judge that they came to light when he left a USB stick at his former partner’s house, which contained the vile images.

It was found and examined by her shocked and disgusted new partner.

The pen drive was handed over to the police who then executed a search warrant at Wills’s home and seized computer equipment, going on to find further images.

He had pleaded guilty to all seven charges against him on an earlier appearance at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates’ Court.

As well as the prison term, Wills was also made the subject of a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and he must also sign on the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.