If I were to show you the picture above and ask you what this man was appearing in court for, chances are you would probably say some kind of grievous pornography offences merely on account of the way he was standing outside of court with his belly out and his hands down his pants. And you would be exactly right.

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33-year-old David Carey from Tyneside appeared in North Tyneside Magistrates Court yesterday to answer the charge of the possession of 9,000 extreme pornographic images. These include both child and animal porn.

Carey spoke only to confirm his name, age and address before the case was referred to Newcastle Crown Court at the start of February. He’s made no indication what his plea will be, but hopefully he’ll wear something a bit more appropriate for that date and not stand around with his hands down his pants again.

Laura Lax was prosecuting and said the following about the case:

These charges are not suitable to be dealt with at this court.

There’s a number of charges. It’s allegedly about 9,000 images and some are extreme.

The alleged offences took place between November 1 2012 and February 25 2016 at Carey’s home and relate to images and movies found on a phone, memory stick and lap top.

There’s also a charge of distribution of a small amount of category A images.

It’s clearly beyond any potential sentencing powers of this court.

Sounds like this guy is completely screwed – there’s no way that the authorities could make a mistake about 9,000 different images is there? I suppose we’ll see on February 1st though.

In the meantime, is something going on up in the north? Remember this guy who recently got caught with a bunch of octopus porn up there?