Police praise window cleaner for reporting child porn pensioner

A jury took 45 minutes to find Simon Mountford, 68, guilty of one count of making indecent photographs of a child and seven counts of making indecent images of a child, which related to videos. The images ranged from level one to level four, with five the most serious.

Mountford, of Preston, near Hull, was also found guilty of failing to disclose protected information at his trial, and was given a six month jail sentence, suspended for two years.

Detective Sergeant Rebecca Handley, of Humberside Police, said he may never have been caught without the window cleaner's intervention.

She said: "He could see him in the room sat at the computer and could see the monitor and at first he thought he was looking at adult porn. Then he realised he was looking at children.

"A warrant was issued for his arrest and police seized three computers and numerous hard drives. Upon examination of his computer 67 encrypted files were found. These were large files and the activity on the computer gave the belief these files contained indecent images. If it hadn't been for the window cleaner he might never have been caught."