sault. The following year, in 2007, he was convicted on charges of downloading child sex abuse images and videos, including what a British judge described as a graphic […] sadistic brutalisation of a child, and was sentenced to 10 months in prison. He was placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years, and released in November 2007 after his sentence was reduced to six months. My life has been ruined, but my conscience is clear, he said after leaving prison, still maintaining he had no sexual interest in children.