{"id":48055,"date":"2025-04-25T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48055\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T01:08:11","slug":"depraved-midlands-mans-wild-lie-after-police-find-170000-images-and-videos-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48055\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Depraved&#8217; Midlands man&#8217;s wild lie after police find 170,000 images and videos of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police acted on intelligence to rumble West Midlands man Durai Raj<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_JS366816490.png\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A West Midlands man who was found with more than 170,000 indecent images and video files of children has been jailed for his &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; crimes. Durai Raj (pictured) was sentenced to 30 months in jail at Warwick Crown Court on April 16(Image: Warwickshire Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A West Midlands man who was found with more than 170,000 indecent images and video files of children has been jailed for his &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/warwickshire\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Warwickshire<\/a> Police raided the home of Durai Raj in Ash Green in Coventry back in May 2024 were sent intelligence suggesting Raj had uploaded indecent images of children to the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At first the 34-year-old lied to officers, initially claiming he had accessed thousands of indecent images of children over an eight-month period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE:<\/strong> <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/man-found-multiple-serious-injuries-31505467\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Man found with &#8216;multiple serious injuries&#8217; after stabbing near Birmingham park &#8211; full statements<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HiSLU1pMS4WIRGDRbnDYAf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Yet forensic digital analysis found that &#8216;depraved&#8217; Raj had actually been accessing them over a period of nine years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was jailed at Warwick Crown Court on Wednesday April 16 to 30 months in jail after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing, said police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Warwickshire Police spokesperson said on April 24: &#8220;Back in May 2024, officers from our Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team (OCSET) acted on intelligence suggesting Durai Raj had uploaded indecent images of children to the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A search of his home address resulted in seven devices being seized \u2013 two of which were found to contain more than 170,000 images and video files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Despite the 34-year-old initially claiming he had accessed them over an eight-month period, digital analysis showed it had actually been over a period of nine years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745543291_215_0_JS366816490.png\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A West Midlands man who was found with more than 170,000 indecent images and video files of children has been jailed for his &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; crimes. Durai Raj (pictured) was sentenced to 30 months in jail at Warwick Crown Court on April 16(Image: Warwickshire Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Officers also discovered the files, which had been categorised into ages and genres and involved several different victims, had been shared with other people online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Raj, of Corley View, Ash Green, was arrested and later charged with:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">three counts of making an indecent photograph\/pseudo-photograph of a child<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 ENBBt\">two counts of distributing an indecent photograph\/pseudo-photograph of a child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The force spokesperson added: &#8220;After pleading guilty at an earlier hearing, he appeared at Warwick Crown Court on Wednesday (16 April) where he was sentenced to 30 months in jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;He was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for ten years and made to surrender all his devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Following sentencing, detective constable Longmuir, from Warwickshire Police&#8217;s OCSET team, said: \u201cRaj is a sexual offender who poses a significant risk to children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe material he possessed and shared can only be described as abhorrent \u2013 depicting the most serious sexual offences against children of all ages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe distribution, possession and downloading of indecent images is depraved and anyone who does it should expect to be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cOur team of specialist officers is dedicated to targeting those who use the perceived anonymity of the internet to cause serious harm to children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe will continue to pursue and identify those who are sharing material online of children, which is completely unacceptable, and I hope his conviction shows how we will leave no stone unturned when it comes to bringing offenders to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police acted on intelligence to rumble West Midlands man Durai RajA West Midlands man who was found with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,26190,393,4884,16,15,9733],"class_list":{"0":"post-48055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-coventry","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-warwickshire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114395932846984570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48055","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=48055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}