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Triggs, of Ickleton Road, Elmdon, was charged with three offences of making indecent
images of children, possession of extreme pornography, possession of prohibited images of
children and distribution of indecent images of children.
He pleaded guilty at Colchester Magistrates’ Court in December and was sentenced on
January 16 at Chelmsford Crown Court.
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Triggs was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for making Category A images, 12
months for making Category B images and six months each for making and distributing
Category C images.
He was also sentenced to one month for the possession of prohibited images.
All of the sentences were suspended for two years.
The former principal of the Da Vinci Studio School of Science and Engineering was also
ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work and to pay £425 in court costs.
He is now the subject of a ten-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, and a 50 day
rehabilitation requirement.
What’s the difference between a magistrates’ court and a Crown Court?
Most criminal cases start in a magistrates’ court and more than 90 per cent will be
completed there.
More serious offences are passed on to the crown court, either for sentencing after the
defendant has been found guilty in a magistrates’ court, or for a full trial with a judge and
jury.
Magistrates deal with three kinds of cases:
Summary offences: These are less serious cases, such as motoring offences and minor
assaults, where the defendant is not usually entitled to trial by jury. They are generally
disposed of in magistrates’ courts. Either-way offences: These can be dealt with either by
magistrates or before a judge and jury at the crown court. A defendant can insist on their
right to trial in the crown court and magistrates can also decide that a case is so serious it
should be dealt with in the crown court, which can impose tougher sentences. Indictableonly
offences, such as murder, manslaughter, rape and robbery. These must be heard in a
crown court.
The crown court can impose far tougher sentences than a magistrates’ court and deals with
serious criminal cases including:
Cases sent for trial by magistrates as they are ‘indictable only’. ‘Either-way’ offences.
Defendants convicted in magistrates’ courts, but sent to the crown court for sentencing due
to the seriousness of the offence. Appeals against decisions of magistrates’ courts.
Peach Burrows Peach Burrows claimed income support, carer's allowance and housing
benefit while working
The former security worker from Dagenham cheated the system out of more than £10,000
through benefit fraud.
Burrows, 46, and from Barking still claimed income support, carer’s allowance and housing
benefit while working for JV Security Services from 2014.
On January 23 she was given a 20-week suspended sentence at Southend Crown Court.
Burrows had shown a compliance officer a bank statement relating to a Natwest account,
while maintaining it was the only one she had but there was a second account that she kept
hidden.
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The total benefit that was overpaid was £10,296.88.
Judge Leigh said: “It is clear that in the circumstances in this case that the claims were not
exaggerated in the first place.
“You did start working on March 1, 2014. Once you start earning money you need to give
your benefits away because they are there for the most needy in society.”
She was also put under curfew, whereby she has to remain insider her communal flat from
7pm until 6am and ordered to attend 19 Thinking Skills sessions.
Scott Williams-Clarke Scott Williams-Clarke leaving Chelmsford Crown Court
The 35-year-old from Clacton was caught sending images of his penis to someone whom he
thought was a 13-year-old girl.
On January 26 Williams-Clarke attended Chelmsford Crown Court after asking the ‘girl’ to
send naked pictures, before he sent three pictures of his penis.
However, the ‘girl’ was an undercover profile posing as a 13-year-old girl called Erica that
had been set up by paedophile hunting group Internet Interceptors.