{"id":302744,"date":"2025-07-30T02:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302744\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:18:14","slug":"inverness-man-now-living-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302744\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverness man &#8211; now living in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 34-year-old Inverness man has admitted downloading almost 1000 still images and videos of children being abused or posing erotically<\/p>\n<p>Darren Bennett&#8217;s then home in Kingsview Terrace was raided by police on November 19 last year while he was in it with his partner and his mobile phone was seized.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 8050 5359\" alt=\"Inverness Sheriff Court is at Inverness Justice Centre.\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"SU2GJ51422XVNWUSEISK.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.50\"\/>Inverness Sheriff Court is at Inverness Justice Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal depute Karen Poke told Sheriff David Harvie that after analysis, 515 accessible stills and five accessible videos were discovered. She added that 458 images were inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total of 366 stills and four of the videos were Category A [the most graphic kind of abuse],\u201d she said. \u201cThe run-time of the videos was a total of three minutes and 27 seconds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that Bennett had now moved home to Duke Street in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverness-courier.co.uk\/news\/courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More court news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverness-courier.co.uk\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More crime news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He admitted downloading and possessing the material between January 30, 2023 and November 10, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Sentence was deferred until September 23 for a background report and a restriction of liberty order assessment.<\/p>\n<p>An original September 2 date for sentencing was changed when defence solicitor advocate Mike Chapman informed the court that his client had a pre-booked holiday at the beginning of September.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett was also placed on the Sex Offenders\u2019 Register in the interim &#8211; the final length to be decided at sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>His bail was continued but Sheriff Harvie declared before forfeiting the phone: &#8220;This has crossed the custodial threshold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverness-courier.co.uk\/news\/court-reporting-highland-news-media-fact-sheet-238723\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">  View our fact sheet on court reporting here <\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old Inverness man has admitted downloading almost 1000 still images and videos of children being abused or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,30,918,4884,1501,712,16,15,5900],"class_list":{"0":"post-302744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-update-me"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114939789559881941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}