A man has been jailed for possessing child pornography in Hastings.
A Hastings man who pleaded guilty to 10 charges of possessing child sexual abuse images was yesterday jailed for 12 months.
Judge Gerard Winter in the Hastings District Court told Andrew Craig Ward, 43, a leading hand, that home detention was not sufficient to denounce and deter offending.
In July
2014, an Internal Affairs inspector detected Ward on internet file-sharing sites offering child sexual abuse material.
A search warrant was executed at his home, where computer equipment showed such material had been viewed from 2009.
There were about 1000 unique images and movies depicting the sexual exploitation of children.
