A Fermanagh businessman who admitted having 17 child abuse images and one extreme pornographic image has been ordered to undertake a two-year sexual offenders course.
Mortgage and insurance broker William Martin McBride (61), of Tempo Road, Doon, Tempo, pleaded guilty to having the images between January and June 2014.
A small number of videos of extreme child pornography were also found at the defendant’s home in Tempo.
A prosecutor told Dungannon Crown Court that he had made an early guilty plea after police found the images at this home in June 2014.
Judge Neil Rafferty said for every offence before the court there were “real live children" being abused by "vile and sick people".
“Without people like you there would not be a market and that is why real children suffered pain and anguish over what you viewed.”
The judge added that in England the courts recently sentenced a 101-year-old man for historical child abuse offences, which sends the message that the issue is taken very seriously.
