Solihull doctor caught with 11,000 child porn images

A Solihull doctor has escaped a jail sentence after being caught with 11,000 indecent images of children.

A court heard consultant anaesthetist Emil Guirguis, 59, “dredged the darkest recesses” of the internet for vile snaps of abused children.

His secret double life was finally exposed when police raided his £400,000 Solihull home and another in Staffordshire to seize laptops and hard-drives.

They found he had searched for pornography on the internet, collecting more than 11,000 indecent images of children and 1,028 extreme porn images.

Guirguis admitted three offences of possessing indecent images of children, three offences of making indecent images of children and one offence of possessing extreme pornographic images.

The court heard he had 35 years experience at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and the Royal Stoke University Hospital and has since retired from the profession.

He was handed a three-year community order with a requirement to comply with the internet sex offender treatment programme. He was also made the subject of a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will be on the sex offenders’ register for the same period.

Guirguis was also barred from working with children or vulnerable adults.

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