A FORMER teacher and scout leader is facing jail after being found guilty of possessing hundreds of indecent images of young boys.
Officers swooped on the former parish councillor's address in Hamble last year, seizing hundreds of images.
Easterby was found guilty just weeks after fellow former Sholing Technology College teacher Edmund Warbrick was given a suspended sentence for admitting owning images of children.
Today, it took a jury less than an hour to find 43-year-old former Hamble Parish councillor Easterby guilty of 13 offences of possessing and making indecent images of young boys, and not guilty of one other charge.
He sobbed in the dock after the verdict was delivered, and a judge at Southampton Crown Court told him that “all options are open” when he is sentenced next month.
Easterby was bailed ahead of sentencing on March 13, and Judge Henry gave him an interim sexual offences prevention order banning him from using devices to access the internet where history can be deleted or where images can be stored.
Under his bail conditions he must not have any unsupervised contact with children under 18, not contact any children under 18 online or attend any events organised by scout groups.
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