Man found with 5,000 indecent child images jailed
Northamptonshire PoliceA man who filmed himself sexually abusing a five-year-old girl has been jailed for nine years.
Hassan Subhan, 24, from Conyngham Road in Northampton, was first investigated by Northamptonshire Police's Online Abuse Investigation Unit in 2022.
Officers found more than 5,000 indecent images of children on his electronic devices, 2,069 of those being Category A – the most serious.
In January he admitted one count of sexual assault of a child, three counts of making indecent images of children, three counts of distributing indecent images of children, one count of possessing prohibited images and one count of possessing extreme images.
Northamptonshire Police said Subhan was found with first generation videos that he had created of himself sexually assaulting a five-year-old child.
He was arrested in 2022, and the child in the video was safeguarded.
He was sentenced to nine years in prison with an extended sentence of five years on licence.
Det Insp Matt Haworth said: "I am really pleased with this sentence which reflects how seriously Northamptonshire Police take these offences.
"Hussan thought that by acting online he was afforded anonymity from his offences.
"Through the diligent investigation of the lead investigator and one of our dedicated intelligence officers, his offending was identified and he has been brought to justice."
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