Man jailed for possessing indecent images of children

A man has been jailed for possessing indecent images of children, thanks in part to the work of one of our ‘Digi Dogs’.

Timothy O'Keefe, 58, of May Close in Southampton, appeared at Winchester Crown Court on Friday 17 January after pleading guilty to possessing more than 700 indecent images of children.

The offences took place between June 2022 and June 2024, while O’Keefe was living in Portsmouth and Andover.

Following an investigation by the Internet Child Abuse Team in July 2022, officers searched O’Keefe’s address in Arundel Street, Portsmouth.

A laptop belonging to him was located after it had been thrown into a neighbour’s garden, so officers deployed PD Dizzie, who is a Digital Data Detection Dog.

These dogs are trained to sniff out electronic devices and items like phones and sim cards, and on this occasion PD Dizzie located a USB stick which belonged to O’Keefe and had many indecent images of children on it.

O’Keefe was handed a two year prison sentence for the offences.