>Backlash as transgender paedophile is spared jail: Peer demands review of sentence after judge hears pervert is anxious about coping in prison
>Baroness Nicholson is demanding action over the case of Peter Selby, who was caught with more than 125,000 child abuse images, including more than 2,400 that were classed as Category A, the most obscene.
>The paedophile, who was born male, admitted three charges of making indecent images of children and one of possessing extreme pornography, which involved an adult engaged in bestiality.
>But the judge at Newcastle Crown Court was told that the paedophile was fearful about trying to manage in prison.
>Recorder Geraldine Kelly said: ‘You identify as transgender and that has caused issues for you and anxiety for you in how you would cope with that if you were sent immediately to prison... the impact of custody would be significant for you in the circumstances.’
>The judge said she was suspending the sentence because the paedophile had sought counselling since being arrested in 2019, and was assessed in a pre- sentence report as being ‘manageable in the community’. Selby, of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register and abide by a ten-year sexual harm prevention order.
>The sentencing attracted public anger, and Conservative peer Baroness Nicholson said she would seek an immediate review of the case.
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