A man who creating depraved images of children using ground-breaking AI technology admitted to police that he has a “corrupted and warped mind.”
Egerton man Hugh Nelson was jailed for 18 years this week at Bolton Crown Court after created a horrifying array of images of child sexual abuse and encouraging the rape of children.
Greater Manchester Police have released video footage of their interviews with Nelson were he admitted to the scale of his crimes.
In his interview, Nelson said: “I just kind of like fell into this pit of despair and absolute grotesque behaviour and just spiralled and spiralled and got worse.”
He added: “I’ve probably been doing it about two years now and I can probably say its got worse in nature as I’ve continued with them.
“Cos its sick how much it effects your mind, especially when you have no job, you sit at home, you play games, you watch porn and you make these stupid God damn images.
“My mind is very corrupted and warped.”
Nelson went on the describe the kinds of images he created for his online customers.
Speaking to detectives, he said: “They can just be images of them posing, fully clothed to hard core rape images.
“Yeah so everything really.”
He added: “The images that are sent, I’m not sure you would classify them as any restricted image because they’re not sexual in nature at all.
“They’re just used as reference to create a 3-D model from there.”
Nelson, of Briggs Fold Road, Egerton pleaded guilty to four counts of distributing indecent images of children and to publishing an obscene article.
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He also eventually pleaded guilty to three counts of encouraging offences, in each case the rape of a child under 13, and to attempting to incite a child under 16 to sex.
Nelson also admitted to three counts of distributing indecent photographs of children, three counts of making indecent images of children and possessing prohibited images of children.
He was jailed for 18 years with an extended licence period of six years at Bolton Crown Court this week and put on the sex offenders register for life.
Nelson was also hit with an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
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