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| Star Trek fan Anthony Alleyne jailed for child porn offences | Star Trek fan Anthony Alleyne jailed for child porn offences |
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| A Star Trek fan who converted his flat into a replica of the Starship Enterprise has been jailed for downloading thousands of images of child abuse. | A Star Trek fan who converted his flat into a replica of the Starship Enterprise has been jailed for downloading thousands of images of child abuse. |
| Anthony Alleyne, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, was jailed at Leicester Crown Court for 34 months. | Anthony Alleyne, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, was jailed at Leicester Crown Court for 34 months. |
| The 60-year-old spent 10 years and thousands of pounds converting his home, which was inspired by the long-running TV series. | The 60-year-old spent 10 years and thousands of pounds converting his home, which was inspired by the long-running TV series. |
| He previously admitted 22 charges. | He previously admitted 22 charges. |
| Alleyne pleaded guilty to 20 charges relating to indecent images of child abuse and two further charges related to offences of a serious sexual nature. | |
| 'No real regret' | |
| Of the more than 5,000 pictures he accessed between 2010 and 2012 many involved very young children and more than half were of the most serious category of abuse. | |
| In sentencing Alleyne, Judge Philip Head said: "Without people like you accessing such material there would be no market and poor, desperate children would not be treated that way by depraved people. | |
| "You have no real regret save for being caught." | |
| He added: "This kind of sentence is what to expect if you are caught behaving this way at the expense of traumatised, brutalised children." | |
| Alleyne was made the subject of a 10-year sexual offences prevention order, meaning his computer use will be monitored. | |
| He will also have to sign the sex offenders' register indefinitely. | |
| The court was told he suffered depression and rarely left home following the break up of his marriage. | |
| It was during this 17-year unemployed period he devoted himself to converting the flat into a replica of the Starship Enterprise, even building a replica transporter unit. | |
| Police raided his flat in September 2010 after details from the police internet protocol unit but he initially refused to give passwords to online accounts. | |
| He later deleted information from a different computer but experts were able to retrieve the information. | |
| The court was told Alleyne was forced to put his flat on the market after his ex-wife, who owned the building, decided to sell. | |
| He ripped out the Starship Enterprise design when he could not find someone to meet the £800,000 price tag and instead began to convert it into a design based on the spin-off series Star Trek Voyager. | |
| However, he had to file for bankruptcy after taking out loans and using credit cards to start a business offering similar science fiction-themed makeovers. | However, he had to file for bankruptcy after taking out loans and using credit cards to start a business offering similar science fiction-themed makeovers. |