Clause 49
Coroners and Justice Bill
12:00 pm
Stephen Hesford (Wirral West, Labour)
I am obliged to the hon. Lady for giving way. Picking up on the notion suggested by the hon. and learned Member for Harborough, if a dirty old man had one image and nothing else, the prosecution authorities might conclude that there was no case to prosecute. That is one way of dealing with it, but there is another. Does the hon. Lady accept that if there were two or three images, the authorities could prosecute but the sentence should take account of the fact that there were just one or two isolated images, as the damage would be small? The protection of children demands that such images are controlled in some way. Is that not the solution?