A CHILDREN'S outdoor activity centre manager who pretended to be a woman in order to be accepted as a member of a nudist website which encourage child abuse was jailed for four years today.
Jonathan Garner-Harris, a deputy director of the Marrick Priory centre in Marrick, near Richmond, North Yorkshire, was the ninth member of an international paedophile network to be dealt with by the courts.
The 37-year-old was investigated by Durham Police and pleaded guilty at Durham Crown Court to 20 offences.
His case was transferred to Portsmouth Crown Court where he was sentenced by Judge Roger Hetherington who heard a six-week trial involving other members of the ring which abused two young children.
Garner-Harris was jailed for four years concurrent for three charges of inciting a child sex offence and four months concurrent for each of 17 counts relating to indecent photos of children.
Full story in tomorrow's The Northern Echo
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