Redbank man avoids jail, placed on sex offender's register for possessing child abuse material

By Erin Williams
Updated September 24 2020 - 3:35pm, first published September 21 2020 - 10:04am
Police seized a mobile phone and a laptop from fifty-one-year-old man Darren Robert Lawrence. Picture: Shutterstock
Police seized a mobile phone and a laptop from fifty-one-year-old man Darren Robert Lawrence. Picture: Shutterstock

A 51-year-old man has told a court he was not aware he was in possession of almost 40,000 child abuse images and videos, despite pleading guilty to the offence.

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