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Meehan denies child porn charges | |
(about 5 hours later) | |
The former partner of Shannon Matthews' mother has told a court indecent images of children found on his computer had nothing to do with him. | |
Craig Meehan, 22, is accused of having 134 indecent images on a computer at the home he shared with Karen Matthews in Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire. | |
Police found the images during their search for missing Shannon Matthews. | |
Prosecutor David Holderness told Dewsbury magistrates Mr Meehan had pointed the finger at other people. | |
He said Mr Meehan claimed other people had used his password-protected computer. There are substantial amounts of material which, when put together, provide a convincing and overwhelming picture that it was Mr Meehan who was the person who downloaded the relevant materials Prosecutor David Holderness | |
Detectives seized the computer from the home the day after nine-year-old Shannon went missing in February, the court was told. | |
Mr Holderness said the former supermarket fishmonger faced charges which referred to 134 indecent images of children. | |
He said 133 of these were found on a second-hand computer Mr Meehan had bought in 2006. The other was found on his mobile phone. | |
The prosecutor said 16 of the images were classified as level four in a scale of one to five, where five is the most serious. | |
The majority of the images were classified as level one with others at level two and three. | |
Mr Holderness said: "There are substantial amounts of material which, when put together, provide a convincing and overwhelming picture that it was Mr Meehan who was the person who downloaded the relevant materials." | |
He said part of the prosecution case would be matching the times at which the images were downloaded with Mr Meehan's work record. | |
Mr Meehan denies all the charges. | |
The hearing is expected to last five days. |
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