A FORMER Essex Police office worker found guilty of downloading nearly 8,000 indecent images of girls as young as two claimed he did so for research purposes.Ian Black, 54, of Yare Avenue, Witham, claimed he had amassed the hoard over nine years as part of an educational awareness activity for his Boys' Brigade group.He also suggested that some of the stash found could have been already on corrupted and second hand external hard drives and memory sticks he bought online – that he believed...
