Fowler also sent sex doll through the post
A former House of Keys candidate will be sentenced in the New Year after admitting possessing indecent images of children.
David Anthony Fowler, of Howstrake Drive in Onchan, had originally denied five offences but changed his pleas to guilty at Douglas Courthouse today (21 November).
The court heard the 55-year-old was found with almost 50 images of children, at his former address of Stevenson Court in Douglas, on 19 May this year.
Two of the charges relate to electronic photographs and three relate to hard copies – it’s understood the young girls pictured were aged between three and 10 years of age.
The images ranged between Level 1 and Level 2 on the COPINE Scale – the system which police use to categorise the severity of indecent imagery.
The gardener also admitted sending an obscene article – a sex doll – through the postal system on or about 2 November 2021.
Fowler, who stood unsuccessfully in two general election campaigns in 2016 and 2021 and a by-election in 2020, was told he will be sentenced on 16 January.
Social enquiry and psychiatric reports will be compiled before that date; he’s been bailed until his next court appearance.
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