Sentencing is delayed over Oswestry man, 28, caught with obscene images
An Oswestry man who has admitted a string of charges relating to indecent images of children and animals has been told he faces the strong prospect of an immediate custodial sentence.
But a sentencing hearing on Monday was adjourned to give his legal team the chance to compile a case that Joseph Eccles can be given a suspended sentence.
Eccles, aged 28, of Oswald Place, Oswestry, had more than 860 images including 253 Category A - which would include some of the most depraved child sex abuse - 93 Category B images and 501 Category C.
He also had 17 extreme pornographic images of humans performing sex acts with animals.
Eccles pleaded guilty at Kidderminster Magistrates Court to four counts of making indecent images of children, one count of possessing an extreme pornographic image, one count of possessing a prohibited image of a child and breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
