Pornography: Children

(asked on 12th July 2018) - View Source
Questioner
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Baroness Howe of Idlicote
(Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) prosecutions, and (2) convictions have been made under section 62 of the Coroner and Justice Act 2009 in the last five financial years.

Answered by
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Lord Keen of Elie
This question was answered on 26th July 2018

The number of prosecutions and convictions under section 62 of the Coroner and Justice Act 2009 for the financial years from 2012/13 to 2016/17 can be found in the table below.

Number of prosecutions and convictions under Section 62 of the Coroner and Justice Act 2009, possession of prohibited image of a child, 2012/13 to 2016/17

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

Prosecutions

18

17

18

24

40

Convictions

14

7

11

27

53

A defendant who appears before both magistrates’ court and Crown Court may not do so within the same year, meaning for a given year convictions may exceed prosecutions or sentences may not equal convictions. Defendants who appear before both courts may be convicted at the Crown Court for a different offence to that for which they were originally proceeded against at magistrates’ court.

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