Desmond Gibbons was first elected as a Labour member of Gedling Borough Council in 2019
A former Gedling councillor with a "dark and sinister" side will spend nearly two years in prison after more than 600 indecent images of children were found on his devices. Desmond Gibbons, 67, of Station Road in Ollerton, was found to have 686 images on his mobile phone and laptop in total.
Gibbons continued to sit as an independent councillor until confirming in August 2024 that he had stood down for reasons of ill health. Friday's court hearing heard that police first received intelligence in May 2023 that indecent images of children had been uploaded to the internet from a Skype account linked to Gibbons.
Mr Javed also said there were 193 Category B images and 376 Category C images, with children as young as three shown in both cases. Luc Chignell, mitigating, told Friday's hearing that as well as his time on Gedling Borough Council, Gibbons had worked for many years at Royal Mail, including 15 years as a trade union representative.
The five offences, which Gibbons had pleaded guilty to at a Nottingham Magistrates' Court hearing on August 23, 2024, were all carried out between June 2022 and April 2024. It means Gibbons' offending was done while he remained a Gedling councillor in receipt of taxpayer money.
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