A COMPANY director has been spared jail despite downloading almost 800 pictures and videos of child porn.

Marek Katona, of Sayers Close, Newbury, stored the indecent images on two devices over a 16-year period which began in 2004.

The 41-year-old, who is the company director of MK Road Ltd, had images of girls as young as eight years old on his computers.

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He was caught out when police attended his home having been notified that indecent images had been downloaded from his IP address.

A number of devices were seized, including a hard drive, laptop and iPhone.

But Katona was spared prison after admitting to three counts of making indecent images ranging in degrees of severity.

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He was handed a 16-month prison term suspended for 18 months and placed on the sex offenders register for ten years.

Two of the three devices seized will be destroyed following a court order.

Katona appeared at Reading Crown Court on Thursday, September 2.

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