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HM Courts Service A Pontefract man who sold pornography from a business at his home has been jailed for two and a half years.
John Snowden copied and sold extreme DVDs featuring animals and supposedly obscene sexual practices. He also made pornographic films with his adult daughter as a director.
Jailing him at Leeds Crown Court, Judge Paul Hoffman said: Looking at some of the titles I have been told what sort of muck you were peddling. It does, to a right thinking member of society, plumb the depths of depraved, twisted and perverted material.
This was a business you were running and what makes it even nastier – your own daughter you had acting as director or producer for some of it. Although I accept there wasn't any force she was being corrupted.
Richard Hebbert, prosecuting, told the court that police raided Snowden's home after a letter requesting pornography was wrongly posted through a neighbour's letter box. He said: In an upstairs bedroom officers found a number of DVDs and from the markings on the discs found a lot of them to be of a pornographic nature. There was clearly an operation in progress for copying films in the house.
Officers found 2,840 films of which most were not illegal, but 55 were classed as obscene – featuring animals and depraved sexual practices.
The court heard Snowden had meticulously kept records of who had bought DVDs over a five year period and had made £43,000 from his business. He also had £14,200 of stock. The business recorded 293 customers of which 69 received materials in breach of the Obscene Publications Act '
HM Courts Service A Pontefract man who sold pornography from a business at his home has been jailed for two and a half years.
John Snowden copied and sold extreme DVDs featuring animals and supposedly obscene sexual practices. He also made pornographic films with his adult daughter as a director.
Jailing him at Leeds Crown Court, Judge Paul Hoffman said: Looking at some of the titles I have been told what sort of muck you were peddling. It does, to a right thinking member of society, plumb the depths of depraved, twisted and perverted material.
This was a business you were running and what makes it even nastier – your own daughter you had acting as director or producer for some of it. Although I accept there wasn't any force she was being corrupted.
Richard Hebbert, prosecuting, told the court that police raided Snowden's home after a letter requesting pornography was wrongly posted through a neighbour's letter box. He said: In an upstairs bedroom officers found a number of DVDs and from the markings on the discs found a lot of them to be of a pornographic nature. There was clearly an operation in progress for copying films in the house.
Officers found 2,840 films of which most were not illegal, but 55 were classed as obscene – featuring animals and depraved sexual practices.
The court heard Snowden had meticulously kept records of who had bought DVDs over a five year period and had made £43,000 from his business. He also had £14,200 of stock. The business recorded 293 customers of which 69 received materials in breach of the Obscene Publications Act '