A WEST Kirby man yesterday admitted downloading more than 1,700 indecent images of children.
Ian Graham McKellar, of Sandy Lane, West Kirby, pleaded guilty to eight offences of making indecent images prior to May 11, 2006.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that the images involved 1,639 images in the lowest category and the other 83 were in the next three more serious categories.
His barrister, Arthur Gibson, told the Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Henry Globe, QC, that McKellar pleaded guilty on the basis that he had deliberately sought to look at naked girls aged between 12 and 16 in erotic poses, but had not wanted to look at children involved in the more serious categories.
McKellar, 58, denied another offence of making indecent photographs, involving six images, and this is to be dropped. McKellar was further remanded on bail to await sentence on February 24.
