Convicted student struck off GOC register

A student dispensing optician has been erased from the GOC registers after being convicted of making and distributing indecent photographs of children.

Milton Keynes-based Thomas Evans pleaded guilty to six counts of making and three counts of distributing the indecent photographs at Aylesbury Crown Court in May, a fitness to practise committee heard. A laptop had been seized the year before storing hundreds of the images.

He was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment and put on the Sexual Offenders Register for ten years in June.

GOC fitness to practise committee chair Ian Crookall said: ‘The committee had regard to the serious nature and extent of the registrant’s conduct which was severely criticised by the learned judge in his sentencing remarks. The child pornographic material involved the serious sexual abuse of very young children and the distribution of multiple images and videos.