Ex-BBC worker David Mundy found with 60,000 child sex abuse images | UK News [Video]

A pensioner who collected tens of thousands of child sex abuse images over two decades has been jailed for 10 months.

Retired BBC sound engineer David Mundy, 85, downloaded more than 58,000 indecent images of children, mostly boys aged between six and 15, a court heard.

When caught, he told detectives the images ‘simply showed kids enjoying themselves’ and that he was only interested in ‘pleasure’.

Mundy’s offending was uncovered in a National Crime Agency sting launched when he attempted to download certain content in 2022.

Officers arrested him and searched his home in Esher, Surrey, finding 31 digital storage devices and 124 CDs containing child sex abuse images.

Some of the content had been organised into files, including some with titles suggested the victims had been categorised by nationality such as French & Czech.

He also kept a 15-page booklet containing keywords to help find certain movies and guides to using …