An eminent NHS guide who ‘led a double life’ as we speak faces jail after he was discovered with greater than 100 ‘abhorrent and perverted’ pictures of kids on his telephone.
Plastic surgeon Mansoor Khan, who was deemed a ‘pillar of society’ and coached a women’ rugby group, downloaded an nameless browser and accessed websites to obtain dozens of ‘probably the most revolting’ pictures.
When police adopted a digital path from a Snapchat account and arrested him, the 54-year-old father of 4 claimed he needed to guard his youngsters from what they may discover and was doing his ‘parental duty’ in accessing the darkish internet.
Now Khan, who labored in two NHS hospitals, has been convicted of three expenses of creating indecent pictures of a kid following a 5 day trial at Salisbury Crown Courtroom, Wilts.
Plastic surgeon Mansoor Khan, who was deemed a ‘pillar of society’ and coached a women’ rugby group, downloaded an nameless browser and accessed websites to obtain dozens of ‘probably the most revolting’ pictures
When police adopted a digital path from a Snapchat account and arrested him, the 54-year-old father of 4 claimed he needed to guard his youngsters from what they may discover and was doing his ‘parental duty’ in accessing the darkish internet
The three expenses are separated by severity of the pictures discovered, made up of 31 class A pictures – ranked as probably the most severe – 14 class B and 61 class C.
Khan’s trial heard he used encrypted websites to message others, downloaded the TOR app so he may entry the darkish internet anonymously and repeatedly accessed baby pornography on his cell phone.
The skilled surgeon, who specialises in reconstructive surgical procedure, breast surgical procedure, physique contouring and ‘facial rejuvenation’ claimed he was investigating the hazards of the web and wasn’t conscious that trying on the pictures was unlawful.
However a jury discovered him responsible of all three expenses of creating indecent pictures of a kid between December 10, 2020, and August 24, 2021.
He’ll now be sentenced in February.
Through the trial, prosecutor Charles Gabb instructed jurors that Khan, who labored at Salisbury District Hospital and College Hospital Southampton, thought that by viewing the pictures secretly on his telephone he would by no means be caught.
Mr Gabb mentioned: ‘I can resist something however temptation’, phrases uttered by one among this nation’s best wordsmiths – Oscar Wilde.
‘There are components to an individual’s intercourse drive which have a darkish facet.
‘The sexual temptation for Mr Khan was such that he gave into it not as soon as, not twice, however many occasions over.
‘The temptation was watching, seeing and maybe fantasising about youngsters..’
Mr Gabb instructed the courtroom the ‘abhorrent’ materials was seen ‘so usually’ by Khan that it ‘will need to have completed it for pleasure’.
Mr Gabb, who revealed 31 of the 106 present in Mr Khan’s telephone had been labeled as class A, added: ‘[They] are of probably the most revolting and abhorrent type.
‘They’re simply terrible.
The courtroom heard data recovered by the Nationwide Crime Company discovered a Snapchat account main them to Mr Khan – and police arrested him whereas at residence together with his spouse in Salisbury on August 24 final 12 months.
Mr Gabb continued: ‘The crown would say in a few years outwardly projecting a picture of a pillar of society, Mr Khan was nursing a deep and sordid secret.
‘Within the privateness of these moments the place he and his telephone had been collectively he thought he would by no means, ever be caught.’
The courtroom heard Mr Khan’s automotive was searched and a telephone, ‘solely’ restricted to his use was seized the place 106 pictures of kids had been discovered after downloading an app to entry the darkish internet in April 2020 to ‘titillate’ his needs.
‘Mr Khan is seemingly a nicely revered guide surgeon at Salisbury District Hospital, he is a specialist physician,’ Mr Gabb added.
‘He’s main a double life – a life that appears, from the outset, not solely completely respectable however laudable.
‘A father of 4 and coach to his lady’s rugby group, what extra of a pillar of society may you be.’
When quizzed by detectives, Mr Gabb revealed Mr Khan mentioned he had solely visited the web sites out of ‘curiosity’ however that by December 2020, Mr Khan’s prime web site was an inappropriate web site.
‘Anyone taking a look at these names can’t have been in any doubt by any means once they had been clicking on and viewing,’ Mr Gabb continued.
‘His clarification was to show a vice right into a advantage. What else may he say?
‘Some could say he has simply proven himself to be fallible human, however the Crown say it’s perverted, disgusting, exploitative and abusive.
‘The Crown say he can’t convey himself to simply accept the person he actually is.’
When interviewed by police in February of this 12 months, Mr Khan mentioned: ‘I’ve my youngsters of an age the place they’re getting on the web, so I’ve began to discover what they might have a look at.
Khan will return to Salisbury Crown Courtroom to be sentenced in February subsequent 12 months, after pre-sentence studies have been compiled
‘Protecting curiosity – I believe that is the phrase. I assumed I used to be me doing my bit as a mum or dad. It is all primarily based on parental duty.
‘I wasn’t conscious that taking a look at it was an unlawful motion. That is my naivety coming by.’
Khan graduated from Aberdeen College in 1995 and has undertaken 12 years of coaching in cosmetic surgery.
He additionally accomplished intensive analysis at Imperial Faculty and obtained his medical diploma in 2003.
He then undertook a year-long fellowship in New Zealand in reconstructive and burns surgical procedure earlier than taking on his put up in 2008 as a guide on the Wessex Regional Plastic Surgical procedure Unit in Salisbury District Hospital.
Lucy Linington, CPS Wessex Senior Crown Prosecutor mentioned: ‘Khan tried to elucidate away his causes for these pictures being discovered on his telephone claiming that it was a part of his parental duty to seek for such content material to ensure his youngsters had been secure.
‘Clearly such a declare was totally fanciful, and the jury had been left in little doubt by any means of his guilt when introduced with the entire proof.
‘We’re working intently with the Nationwide Crime Company and the police to make sure that individuals searching for indecent pictures of kids are prosecuted and dropped at justice.
‘Our message is obvious, you would possibly assume you might be performing anonymously on the darkish internet so as to’t be caught, however you may be and we are going to prosecute you.’
Khan will return to Salisbury Crown Courtroom to be sentenced in February subsequent 12 months, after pre-sentence studies have been compiled.
